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Royal Palaces & Residences
● Beaumont Palace was built around 1130 by England's King Henry 1
● Woodstock Palace was located in Oxfordshire and was completed in 1129 by Norman monarch King Henry I who used the palace extensively as a hunting lodge.
Other Palaces
Castles
● Hanwell Manor House & Castle
● Rotherfield Greys Castle close to Greys Court.
The Treasure Houses of England
Abbeys and Priories
See: Abbeys and Priories of Oxfordshire, England
Churches
Workhouses (Poor Houses) "Spike"
Historic houses in alphabetical order
Including Manor Houses, Mansions, Stately Homes, Country houses, Estate houses, Courts, Halls, Parks and other listed buildings of historic interest
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● The Abbey at Sutton Courtenay, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire)
Image above Geograph © Copyright Brian Robert Marshall and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence.
● Ashdown House (also known as Ashdown Park)
● Asthall Manor is a gabled Jacobean Cotswold manor house in Asthall, Oxfordshire. It was built in about 1620[1] and altered and enlarged in about 1916. Early in the 20th century the house was the childhood home of the Mitford sisters.
● Aynhoe Park is a grade I listed 17th century house on the Northants/Oxon border. Remodelled by Sir John Soane between 1799 and 1804, the characteristics of this visionary architect can be seen throughout the house and its grand reception rooms.
B
● Balescote Manor
● Beckett Hall(or Beckett House)
C
● Caversham Court and Caversham Park, Berkshire (Now Oxfordshire)
● Cecilia Castle House
● Crocker End House Built as a rectory in about 1870, the spacious Victorian Crocker End House in Nettlebed in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England was bought by the Duke and Duchess of Kent in December 1989.
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● Ginge Manor or Ginge Manor House
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● Hardwick House King Charles I of England visited the house while he was a prisoner on escort from Oxford. Hardwick House was bought by Richard Lybbe in 1526; that family ended in an heiress Isabella Lybbe who married Philip Powys in 1730 and their Powys descendants had their home there for a further 130 years. Caroline Powys, wife of Philip Lybbe Powys of Hardwick House maintained a diary from 1756 which recorded the daily social round of her class in gossipy detail. She wrote of visits to neighbouring country houses, the winter balls and assemblies in Henley and the seasons in London and Bath with their plays, concerts and balls. Their great-grandson Philip Lybbe Powys, who later assumed the additional surname of Lybbe, was a rower and MP. He recalled as a child rowing from Hardwick to Mapledurham on Sunday afternoons. Charles Day Rose purchased Hardwick House shortly before he was created a baronet of "Hardwick House in the Parish of Whitchurch in the County of Oxford" on 19 July 1909.[3] Rose is said to have been one of the models for "Toad" of Toad Hall in The Wind in the Willows.[4] Hardwick House and its surrounding estate have been in the ownership of the Baronets Rose of Hardwick for several generations and the current owner is Sir Julian Rose, 4th Baronet, who succeeded his father in 1966. In 1979 he also succeeded to the Rose Baronetcy of Montreal, and became the 5th Baronet in that line.
● Heyford Manor The Domesday Book of 1086 records the village as Haiford, with a manor or 10 hides that was one of the many estates of the Norman baron Robert D'Oyly. [2] Along with many manors of the D'Oyly estate, Heyford became part of the Honour of Wallingford.[2] The manor was tenanted by the de Chesney family until the late 12th century, when Maud de Chesney became married to Henry FitzGerold, chamberlain to Henry II.[2] Maud left the manor to her eldest son Warin, who had succeeded to the manor by 1198 and after whom the village became called Heyford Warren.[2] Warin's daughter Margaret married Baldwin de Redvers, son of William de Redvers, 5th Earl of Devon"'.[2] Heyford Warren remained with the Earls of Devon and thereby passed to Isabella de Fortibus, Countess of Devon in 1262.[2] Isabella outlived all her children, so after her death in 1293 her inheritance was disputed between Warin de Lisle and Hugh de Courtenay, who later became Earl of Devon.[2] Warin died in 1296 but his son Robert eventually won seisin of Heyford Warren in 1310, except for two and a half virgates that were awarded to de Courtenay.[2] Robert also received the nearby manor of Fritwell from the Countess's estate. In 1380 his great-grandson, also Robert de Lisle, sold the manor along with some land at Barford St. Michael for £1,000 to William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester, who made them part of his endowment for the foundation of New College, Oxford.
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● Jack Straw's Farmhouse The land east of the Marston Road was part of Headington until the 20th century and was thus in the parish of St Andrew's Church.[2] Under the Headington Enclosure Award of 1804–5, the Lord of the Manor of Headington acquired a 280-acre (1.1 km2) plot that included the whole of Jack Straw's Lane. Jack Straw's Farmhouse, also known as Jack Straw's Castle, lay to the north of the lane, along with a brickworks between the farmhouse and the Marston Road. Until the 20th century, the lane had no name. Jack Straw is traditionally supposed to have been a farmer who lived on Headington Hill. Although many highwaymen were active in this area, no leader was ever found. However, when Jack Straw died, the cellar underneath his farm kitchen contained expensive goods stolen from merchants and travellers.
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● Longworth House is an historic country house at Longworth in the English county of Oxfordshire (formerly Berkshire). It was owned by the Marten family during the 16th and 17th centuries. Former residents include Sir Henry Marten, Judge of the Admiralty Court.
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R
● Rycote House (also Rycote Manor)
S
● Sutton Courtenay Manor House
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● The Vines is on Pullens Lane, Headington, a suburb in east Oxford, England. It was the first house to be built on the west side of the lane, on land that was originally owned by the Morrell family, local brewers. The house is built of red brick with stone dressings
W
● Waterperry Manor, Oxfordshire
● Wilcote
X-Y-Z
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References and Sources
Oxfordshire Specific
General
- Stravaiging.com
- Secret Scotland
- Canmore
- Historic Scotland
- National Trust
- English Heritage
- WIKI List of country houses in the UK
- Britain's Finest
- Britain Express
- Lankdmark Trust
- Historic Houses Association - represents 1,500 houses in the UK
- Hudson's Historic Houses and Gardens - UK - guidebook of over 2,000 houses open to the public
- The DiCamillo Companion to British & Irish Country Houses - database of over 7,000 houses
- Lost Heritage - A Memorial to the Lost Country Houses of England - list of over 1,700 houses
- National Trust for Historic Preservation - online database of historic houses in the United States
- WIKI Historic Houses Association
- Historic Houses Association
- WIKI Treasure Houses of England
- List of country houses in the United Kingdom
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