Burton Agnes Hall, East Yorkshire

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Five miles outside Bridlington lies Burton Agnes Hall, a beautiful Elizabethan house which is famous for its 17th century carvings and the fine collection of modern paintings, bronzes, furniture and porcelain bought by the previous owner, Sir Marcus Wickham-Boynton, who died in 1989. With no son and heir to take over on his death, responsibility of the farms and estate fell onto the young shoulders of Simon Cunliffe-Lister, who was then just 12 years old. So his mother Susan Cunliffe-Lister, daughter of Viscount William Whitelaw, took over the running of the estate.

The house now has charitable status and is in the hands of the trustees, but the Cunliffe-Listers oversee the day-to-day running of their inheritance. But it's thanks to the late Marcus Wickham-Boynton that Burton Agnes Hall has maintained such an air of grace and dignity when others have struggled to cope.

His complete restoration of the Long Gallery, for example, can now be shared with the general public, and his ethos of restoration has, happily, been continued by the Cunliffe-Listers who have commissioned contemporary craftsmen to make pieces for the Hall. John Makepeace's gallery seat, Kaffe Fassett's tapestry, Janet Haigh's embroidery and Rupert Till's topiary balustrade, have all added to the heritage of this extraordinary house.

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