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Old Chelsea, London, England= Bits of Old Chelsea (1894), etchings of houses of celebrities which featured in a book of this title by Walter Burgess with some other old Chelsea buildings added for good measure. Pictured right: Madame Venturis house, Cheyne Walk This house, number 4 Cheyne Walk was the home of the novelist George Eliot . She moved in there with her husband John Walter Cross . Yo...
Leche House, Chester, Cheshire, England=Timber framed Leche House , considered to be the best preserved medieval town house in Chester, is located at 17 Watergate Street. The building incorporates a section of the famous Chester Rows.The house was built in the seventeenth century for Alderman John Leche of Mollington , who descended from John Leche , surgeon to King Edward III . It was built up...
Aldcliffe Hall, Lancashire,England= Aldcliffe Hall was a 19th century country house, now demolished, which replaced a previous mediaeval building, on the bank of the Lune estuary in Aldcliffe, Lancashire, England.Built in a porous local stone, it was covered in stucco for protection.===History===The Aldcliffe estate was acquired by the strongly Catholic Dalton family in 1557 during the reign of...
Hulme Hall, Cheshire, England= Hulme Hall with its moat and medieval bridge is Allostock’s oldest and most archeologically significant monument. The site is an English Heritage Scheduled Ancient Monument and the Hall and bridge are Grade 2* listed.Danes settled at Hulme Hall in the 10th and 11th century and there are records than an Anglo-Norse squire (Hame) who lived here, perished in the Batt...
Nantwich High Street, Cheshire, England= Pictured right: the swinemarket in Nantwich, with Regent House and the High Street in the background. ==46 High Street, Nantwich, Cheshire, England== 46 High Street is a timber-framed, black-and-white Elizabethan merchant's house in Nantwich, Cheshire, England, located near the town square at the corner of High Street and Castle Street. The present build...
Morleys Hall, Lancashire, England=>===== Image By Keith Williamson, CC BY-SA 2.0, WIKI Morleys Hall , a moated hall converted to two houses, is situated at grid reference SJ 689 992 on Morleys Lane, on the edge of Astley Moss in Astley, Greater Manchester, England. It was largely rebuilt in the 19th century on the site of a medieval timber house. The hall is a Grade II* listed building and th...
St. Jame's Square, Lonond, England= St. James's Square is the only square in the exclusive St James's district of the City of Westminster. It has predominantly Georgian and Neo-Georgian architecture and a private garden in the centre. For its first two hundred or so years it was one of the three or four most fashionable residential address in London. It is now home to the headquarters of a numb...
Maxstoke Prioroy, Warwickshire, England= Maxstoke Priory was a priory in Warwickshire, England.===History of the Priory===In 1330 Sir William de Clinton, later Earl of Huntingdon, bought the advowson of Maxstoke parish church. It was his intention to found a large chantry or college of priests. A warden and five secular priests were appointed. In October 1331. £20 in land and rents together wit...
Fort Belvedere, Surrey, England= Fort Belvedere is a Grade II* listed country house on Shrubs Hill in Windsor Great Park, in Surrey, England.[1] The fort was predominantly constructed by Jeffry Wyatville in a Gothic Revival style in the 1820s.The fort was occupied by numerous members of the British royal family and associated personages from 1750 to 1976. From 1929 Fort Belvedere was the home o...
Bagshot Park, Surrey, England= Bagshot Park is a royal residence located near Bagshot, a village 11 miles (18 km) south of Windsor and approximately 11 miles (18 km) north west of Guildford (Grid reference: SU 9164). Owned by the Crown Estate it is the current home of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex and the Countess of Wessex. Bagshot Park is on Bagshot Heath, a fifty square-mile tract of formerl...
Historic Buildings of Northamptonshire == England Image right - Cottesbrooke Hall , Northampton ===== Image by Cj1340 (talk) - Own work (Original text: I created this work entirely by myself.), Public Domain, Wiki =====See Historic Buildings of Britain and Ireland - Main Page The object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in the county of Northamptonshire, with l...
Waverley Abbey, Surrey, England=Waverley Abbey was the first Cistercian abbey in England. It was founded in 1128 by William Giffard, Bishop of Winchester. Located in Farnham, Surrey, about 2 miles (3.2 km) southeast of the town centre, the abbey is situated on a floodplain, surrounded by current and previous channels of the River Wey. It was damaged on more than one occasion by severe flooding,...
Sonning Bishop's Palace, Berkshire, England=Around 1000 an extensive Bishop's palace was built on the ground that is now Holme Park and St Andrew's Church. A Saxon Nave and Chancel would have stood at the site. The palace was in Holme Park near the River Thames. It was a residence of the Bishops of Salisbury.In 1135, while staying at the palace, Bishop Roger of Salisbury attended the funeral of...
Historic Buildings of County Durham ==England Image right - Rokeby Hall >>===== Image Geograph © Copyright Clive Nicholson and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence.The object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in the county of County Durham, with links to sub-projects for specific buildings as appropriate. GENi profiles of people associated with thos...
Historic Buildings of Worcestershire ==England Image right - Hagley Hall ===== Image by Hagley Hall - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wiki Commons =====See Historic Buildings of Britain and Ireland - Main Page The object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in the county of Worcestershire, with links to sub-projects for specific buildings as appropriate. GENi profiles of ...
God's Providence House, Cheshire, England= God's Providence House is at 9 Watergate Street and 11–11A Watergate Row, Chester, Cheshire, England. The house incorporates part of the Chester Rows, is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building,[1] and is included in the English Heritage Archive.[2] Close-up to show the inscription===History===The ori...
Great Moreton Hall, Cheshire, England= Overview from Wikipedia: Great Moreton Hall is a former country house in Moreton cum Alcumlow near Congleton, in Cheshire, England, less than a mile (1.6 km) from its better-known near namesake Little Moreton Hall. Designed by Edward Blore, it was built in 1841 by Manchester businessman George Holland Ackers, to replace a large timber-framed building that ...
Historic Buildings of Wiltshire ==England Image right - Longford Castle ===== Image by Peter - originally posted to Flickr as Longford Castle, CC BY 2.0, Wiki Commons =====See Historic Buildings of Britain and Ireland - Main Page The object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in the county of Wiltshire, with links to sub-projects for specific buildings as approp...
Ditton Park, Buckinghamshire (Now Berkshire), England=The detached part of Stoke Poges parish forms the manor of DITTON . Assessed at 5 hides, it was held in 1086 by William son of Ansculf, and the overlordship followed the same descent as that of Stoke Poges Manor (q.v.) until 1472, when it became parcel of the honour of Windsor. In 1086 Ditton was held by Walter,) who also held Stoke Poges (q...
Antony House, Cornwall, England= Antony House is the name given to an early 18th-century house, which today is in the ownership of the National Trust. It is located between the towns of Torpoint and the village of Antony in the county of Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is a Grade I listed building.The house is faced in silvery-grey Pentewan stone, flanked by colonnaded wings of mellow brick and ov...
Wokefield Park, Berkshire, England=The Allfreys were Sussex yeomen farmers over many generations, the name first appearing in records as early as 1296. By the end of the medieval period, there were several distinct branches of the family, whose history has been traced by the Felbridge & District History Group. It was the branch of the family at West Dean which eventually rose to greater prosper...
Ufton Court, Berkshire, England===Architecture==Parts of the house date from 1474, including the basis of the great hall and the screens passage complete with the original 'pantry and buttery' doors, although, at Ufton, there was a proper kitchen beyond. From 1568, the place was modified and extended by Elizabeth, Lady Marvyn, a prominent Roman Catholic, including the installation of a magnific...
Coworth House, Berkshire, England= Coworth House , located in Sunningdale, near Ascot is a late 18th Century house recently gutted and rebuilt for use as a hotel. ===History===Cowarth House was a new house at the time of the American Declaration of Independence and contemporary with Captain Cook's third and last world voyage, being first built in 1776. It is named for and situated in the Hamlet...
Swallowfield Park, Berkshire, England=The present house at Swallowfield Park , was erected in 1689 by Henry Hyde, the 2nd Earl of Clarendon, for his wife, the Swallowfield heiress, Flower Backhouse. She was the daughter of William Backhouse, the famous alchemist and inventor, whose family had owned the estate since the late 16th century. Their old Tudor mansion had replaced the previous 'castle...
Bostock House & Bostock Hall, Cheshire, England=The manor of Bostock became the seat of a family who were tenants of the Vernon family, although there are no accuraterecords from the 11th and 12th centuries. This family then took the name of their home styling themselves as ‘de Bostock’. The exact location of the early settlement is not known, but the original Bostock Hall is situated about a m...