The Landmark Trust [Alliance member] is a charity that cares for historic buildings across the UK, promoting public engagement with our diverse cultural heritage.
By making them available for holidays, The Landmark Trust make sure they can be enjoyed by all, both today and for future generations. They have nearly 200 buildings in Britain, several in Italy and France and one in Belgium.
Though they range from the sober to the spectacular, all the Landmark’s Trust buildings are rich in history and atmosphere.
The Ruin, North Yorkshire, pictured here (credits to photographer Jill Tate) – is a typically Janus-faced Georgian folly (meaning it has two faces): smoothly Gothic on its public elevation, which leads through to a rugged, Romanesque, triple-domed ‘ruin’ redolent of ancient Rome and Piranesi, opening to a grand view of the Yorkshire countryside.