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How can I identify a stately home from an aerial photo? There is no information written on the back of the pic

I found a mysterious framed aerial photo of a stately looking house among some old photos at my mother's house. She doesn't recognise it. There is no information on the picture or the frame. You may think I'm strange but I've always dreamed about a house just like this, and to find an actual photo of a house that I thought existed only in my imagination just seems weird! I'm not very good at architecture but will describe the house: It's made from sandy coloured stone It's two storey and at the centre front there are four huge full-height pillars supporting a section of roof that projects. The windows are made up of lots of smaller panes. There are outbuildings to the rear left of it. It looks to be surrounded by quite a fair few trees, and has a large rectangular gravelled area to the front with lawns beyond that. The house itself - looking from above - is like a rectangle with the main entrance on one of the short sides of the rectangle.

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1. well, first, is it a photo from a family box or album, or was it with the house she's in now? find the source of the photo, whether it came with a move into the house by your family, or if the box was there when she moved in. then, just start doing some genealogy, whether your family's or the family before yours in that house. maybe you'll get lucky and find something... if the house is 'local'. you can do historical registry checks in your area, too, i think... this sounds like a house that might be on one. this isn't weird. i had a dream once about a building, then, when i was out in the middle of nowhere miles from home, drove by one that made me do a double-take, and then it was like de ja vous (spelling right? dunno) seeing the building evoked all the feelings of the dream... it was sooo weird.
2. sounds Scottish ..west we have lots of buildings like that but would research your mums genealogy depending on age search the census forms as far as you can it may give you an address cant be that far back though if you have a Aeriel photo
3. Can you upload a picture on to photobucket or something like that and put a link onto the question? Someone might just recognise it.