Many English country houses have experienced a change of use and are no longer privately occupied.
Country houses converted to apartments
Escowbeck
Finedon Hall
Hazelwood Hall
Runshaw Hall
Thurland Castle
Woodfold Hall
Country houses converted to luxury hotels
Cliveden
Coworth House
The Grove, Watford
Hartwell House
Peckforton Castle
Shaw Hill
Taymouth Castle
Thurnham Hall
Wyresdale Hall
Country houses used as schools or for other educational purposes
Alston Hall
Ashridge House
Bramshill House
Culford Park
Dartington Hall
Harlaxton Manor
Heslington Hall
Hinchingbrooke House
Rossall Hall
Prior Park
Scarisbrick Hall
Stowe House
Townhill Park House
Tring Park Mansion
Westonbirt House
Wennington Hall
Country houses used for religious purposes
Capernwray Hall
Taplow Court
Country houses used as hospitals or residential care homes
Cuernden Hall
Gisburne Hall, private hospital
Leckhampton Court
Littledale Hall
Wrightington Hall, NHS hospital
Country houses run as museums or art galleries
Astley Hall, museum and art gallery
Compton Verney, art gallery
Cusworth Hall, The museum of South Yorkshire Life
Duff House, outstation of the National Gallery of Scotland
Lytham Hall, run by English Heritage
Paxton House, outstations of the National Gallery of Scotland
Samlesbury Hall, run by trust
Saint Fagans Castle, National Museum of History
Temple Newsam House, a museum of the decorative arts
Towneley Park, museum and art gallery
Turton Tower, run by Blackburn Council
Wollaton Hall, natural history museum.
Country houses used for other purposes
Alton Towers, amusement park. Drayton Manor, Drayton Manor Theme Park amusement park Donington Hall, office Hewell Grange, open prison Heskin Hall, antiques centre Waddow Hall, Girlguiding centre Winmarleigh Hall, children's activity centre Wyresdale Park, barn wedding venue and business centre
Other uses
The National Portrait Gallery (London) has several outstations at country houses: Montacute House is partially used to display Elizabethan and Jacobean portraits; Beningbrough Hall is used to display 18th-century portraits and Bodrhyddan Hall displays 19th-century portraits.
Knebworth House stages rock concerts in the park. Glyndebourne has an opera house attached. Port Lympne is now a zoo, several houses also have Safari parks in the grounds: Knowsley Hall (The house has never been open to the public), Longleat & Woburn Abbey. Clouds House is used as a centre for treating alcoholics and drug addicts. Moor Park is a golf club-house. Halton House is used by the Royal Air Force and Minley Manor was used by the army. Another common use of country houses is to convert them for multiple occupation, for example New Wardour Castle, Sheffield Park House & Stoneleigh Abbey whose former park Stoneleigh Park is used for exhibitions and agricultural shows. Culzean Castle, Margam Castle & Tatton Hall are at the centre of country parks. Goodwood House is a centre of both horse & motor racing. Ince Blundell Hall is now a nunnery. Toddington Manor is being convert into an art gallery and home by Damien Hirst. Many houses are now in the ownership of Local government and operated as country house museums including Ashton Court, Aston Hall being the first to be so owned from 1864, Cardiff Castle, Heaton Hall & Tredegar House. Ditchley is owned and used for conferences by the Ditchley Foundation.