telegraph.co.uk
63%
787
Six stately escapes for a spot of regal seclusion when we can travel again
Ashby Manor has a glorious history: it is mentioned in the Domesday Book, and Robert Catesby, whose family moved there in 1375, gathered co-conspirators including Guy Fawkes in its gatehouse in 1605, to plan the Gunpowder Plot.More recently, Ivor Guest, First Viscount Wimborne, purchased the place in 1903, and commissioned Edwin Lutyens to remodel it into a spectacular Edwardian country house. Today, the 10-bedroom house is owned by Henry Guest - first cousin of the Fourth Viscount Wimborne - and his Australian wife Nova.They rent it out for holidays and it's a superb place for up to 20 friends (or three families) to gather.
