Resplendent in the low winter sun, Hanbury Hall looks every inch the quintessential English stately home, a wedding cake confection of red brick and pale stone commanding its bucolic setting. "One is struck by the perfect Englishness of the picture,” wrote the eminent architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner. "It could be in no other country."
To get there, you scoot down the motorway from Birmingham, the U.K.’s second largest city, and then meander along country lanes until you are metaphorically transported back to the early 18thcentury, when Hanbury Hall was first built for Thomas Vernon. A successful lawyer who amassed a fortune, which he then plowed into a rural idyll of grand house and gardens, Vernon’s bewigged marble bust still greets visitors in the capacious entrance hall.
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