Up Yours Bruce Wayne. Wayne Manor ISN'T--

[Chronos]

My problem was that I was mentally pronouncing “Whatley” with a short a.

And there’s hardly anything in that article that could rule out any given home being “stately”. They’re from the 16th century, unless they’re newer. They’re in the neo-classical style, unless they’re some other style. The family didn’t actually live there most of the time, unless they did. I guess that a house could fail to be stately by having insufficient grandeur, but Wayne Manor definitely qualifies for that one.

[Lumpy]

My anglophile brother insists that the people who own such residences in the U.K. consistently refer to them as “listed”, and that only vulgar wannabees ever call them “stately”.

[CalMeacham]

Yeah, but “Listed Wayne Manor” would then have me thinking of a Manor located on a lane where they played Whist, and thet would never do.

[Miller]

@Left_Hand_of_Dorkness

I don’t recall ever hearing “Stately Wayne Manor”; if I heard it, the phrase didn’t stick.

Here you go.