COUGHTON COURT

Still home to the Throckmorton family since 1409. A great Tudor house where six hundred years of faith, defiance and daily life unfold in every corner.

Coughton Court

For more than six hundred years, Coughton Court has been the home of the Throckmorton family: a lineage that gives this house an extraordinary sense of living continuity. Peering through the Warwickshire countryside, its magnificent Tudor gatehouse tower, built around 1530 by Sir George Throckmorton, announces a story shaped by faith, courage and unwavering devotion.

Few English houses are so deeply woven into the nation's religious history. Hidden within Coughton's walls are priest holes used in secret during the Elizabethan persecutions, when Catholic worship meant risking everything. The family chapel still stands as a quiet testament to endurance. The Throckmorton's family ties to the Gunpowder Plot remind us that life here was lived dangerously close to the edge - where principle and peril met. 

Now home to Magnus and Imogen Birch Throckmorton and their two young children, Coughton remains, unmistakably, a family residence. Portraits gaze down from panelled walls, letters document distant dramas, and family heirlooms accumulate meaning across generations. In the Great Hall and Long Gallery, oak panels seem to hold the very breath of those who walked there before.

The gardens rank among England's most romantic. Designed by Magnus’ mother Christina Williams, they flow from formal elegance to wild, natural beauty: rose-covered walls giving way to tranquil riverside walks and a walled garden humming with life from spring through autumn. Every view feels both deliberate and effortless, as though house and landscape have grown together over centuries.

Whether you come for the gardens, the layered history, or simply the particular stillness that old houses hold, Coughton rewards those who take their time. Coughton Court isn't a monument frozen in time - it's a home still filled with life, where the past feels close enough to touch and every corner speaks of courage, continuity and quiet grace.