Abstract
English country houses and their estates often contain the physical remains of technological innovations which have survived because of the lack of subsequent modernisation. These have has great potential in helping to understand social change and development because of the major role of such estates played in rural society until the First World War, but there has been no national quantification of this archaeological resource This paper suggests some of the research questions that a comprehensive study of country house technology could illuminate, including the social use of space and changing interactions between the social groups who inhabited that space. It is suggested that understanding the technological inertia displayed on many estates might help to explain the motivations of those who were at the forefront of innovation.
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