The site has a Victorian house with a 0.8 hectare walled garden dating from around 1850. There are also Messenger greenhouses built in the 1880s. The house was home to the Paget family including Arthur Paget, the inventor of the land drainage system. The walled kitchen garden received a grant for restoration form the Heritage Lottery Fund in 2004.

Lowesby Hall has 18th-century parkland of 50 hectares with early-20th-century formal gardens designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and now much simplified. The parkland contains part of the earthwork remains of the medieval village of Lowesby.

Launde Abbey is a substantial country house in east Leicestershire. It is surrounded by attractive landscaped gardens and parkland containing mature trees. There is an 18th-century stable block, a chapel, and an early 19th-century ha-ha, walled garden and glasshouse.

Belvoir Castle has partially reconstructed and restored gardens, originally laid out by the 5th Duchess of Rutland in 1799. The individual gardens were much influenced by Italian terraced gardens, which the Duchess observed on her Grand Tour.

Baggrave Hall has an 18th-century park with a late 19th-century waterside garden.

Coleorton Hall has early 19th-century ‘Picturesque’ style gardens of 21 hectares which include woodland, and pools. The garden has literary and artistic connections, used as a source of inspiration by Samuel Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Sir Walter Scott and John Constable.

Exton Park is run as a traditional country estate and has the remains of an extensive deer park and woodland, as well as gardens around the house. The park was landscaped in the 18th century and also contains 19th-century features, including the ruins of the original Tudor mansion.

The estate, which is now in divided ownership, contains two lakes, formed from canals which existed in the 17th-century formal gardens. The former walled garden contains a garden centre. The former stables now houses The Ferrers Centre for Arts and Crafts. The site is surrounded by a rolling landscape, which is the result of a number of phases of development spanning six centuries. Pevsner described its position as “unsurpassed in the country – certainly as far as Englishness is concerned”.

Stanford Hall is a late-17th-century and early-18th-century park and formal landscape of 200 hectares. Part of the park has been converted into a caravan park.