Our English country houses survive thanks only to the private passion of their owners.
But how is the English country house actually doing today? Well, I don’t think for a moment that Binney is going to give much comfort tonight. I speak as the owner of an Elizabethan house, one that just about washes its face by being open to the public for tours and teas, when I say that we are under as great a threat today as we were back then.
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