Where to visit

Five Georgian houses every aficionado should see

1. HAREWOOD HOUSE Harewood, Leeds, LS17 9LG

This Grade I-listed Georgian house boasts one of the finest art and furniture collections in the country. The exhibition Designer, Maker, Decorator (23rd March to September 2018) celebrates the 300th anniversary of Thomas Chippendale’s birth. harewood.org

2. THE GEORGIAN HOUSE MUSEUM 7 Great George Street, Bristol, BS1 5RR

Authentic and elegant, this six-storey townhouse showcases life ‘above’ and ‘below’ stairs in an 18th-century Georgian home, decorated and furnished to accurately recreate the era. bristolmuseums.org.uk/georgian-house-museum

3. APSLEY HOUSE 149 Piccadilly, Hyde Park Corner, London, W1J 7NT

This beautiful Georgian building was originally designed and styled by Robert Adam between 1771 and 1778 but was remodelled on an elaborate scale for the Duke of Wellington from 1819. english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/apsley-house

4. NO. 1 ROYAL CRESCENT Bath, BA1 2LR

A museum that has been decorated and furnished just as it might have looked during two Georgian-era decades (1776 to 1796). The rooms feature historic furniture, pictures and objects that reveal what life was like for Bath’s fashionable set. no1royalcrescent.org.uk

5. CASTLE COOLE Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, BT74 6JY, Northern Ireland

One of Northern Ireland’s finest neoclassical houses where you can glimpse how life would have been for the Earls of Belmore. Tipped by The Georgian Group to be one of the finest homes that hasn’t been altered much since it was built. nationaltrust.org.uk/castle-coole