stately home

English

Noun

stately home (plural stately homes)

1. (Britain) Synonym of country house, especially one owned by the aristocracy
   • 1967, The Kinks, Sunny Afternoon

     The tax man's taken all my dough
     And left me in my stately home
     Lazing on a sunny afternoon

   • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, pages 266-267:

     'There's just something nice about the idea that you can move without being seen - that you can go down there and come up here. I grew up in a stately home,' he continued without a trace of boastfulness, 'and there actually was a secret passage. [...]'

References

• “stately home” in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press.