Charborough House, Dorset, England=>===== Image Geograph © Copyright Chris Downer and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence. Charborough House, also known as Charborough Park , is a Grade I listed building[1] and rural estate between the villages of Sturminster Marshall and Bere Regis in Dorset, England. The grounds, which include a deer park and gardens, adjoin the villages of Wint...
Tresillian House, Cornwall, England= Tresillian House is a country house in the parish of Summercourt, Cornwall, to the northeast of St Newlyn East, off the A3058 road, northeast of Newquay, Cornwall, England. It became a Grade II listed building on 30 May 1967. It is most associated with the Bennet family historically; John Bennet, Curate of Antony was once owner of the house and in 1837 it wa...
Cholmondeley Castle, Cheshire, England= Cholmondeley Castle (/ˈtʃʌmlɪ/ chum-lee) is a country house in the civil parish of Cholmondeley, Cheshire, England. Together with its adjacent formal gardens it is surrounded by parkland. The site of the house has been a seat of the Cholmondeley family since the 12th century. The present house replaced a timber-framed hall nearby. It was built in the earl...
Historic Buildings of Lancashire ==England===Including ManchesterThe object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in the county of Lancashire, with links to sub-projects for specific buildings as appropriate. GENi profiles of people associated with those establishments can be linked to this project and/or to individual projects where they have been set up. Image rig...
Chiswick House, London, England= Chiswick House is a Palladian villa in Burlington Lane, Chiswick. Arguably the finest remaining example of Neo-Palladian architecture in London, the house was designed by Lord Burlington, and completed in 1729. The house and gardens, which occupy 26.33 hectares (65.1 acres),[1] mainly created by architect and landscape designer William Kent, is one of the earlie...
Hough Hole House, Cheshire, England= Hough Hole House is a historic house to the northwest of the village of Rainow, Cheshire, England. It dates from about 1660, and was altered and extended in 1796. An engineering works was added in the 1850s, and incorporated into the house during the 20th century. The house is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed...
Henbury Hall, Cheshire, England= Henbury Hall is a country house located about 1 mile (1.6 km) to the southwest of the village of Henbury, Cheshire, England. The present house was built in the 1980s in Neo-Palladian style, its design being based on Palladio's Villa Rotonda.[1][2][3]===History===Depiction of Henbury Hall in the 1707 Britannia IllustrataA hall known as Henbury Hall existed in the...
Brownsea Castle, Dorset, England= Brownsea Castle, also known historically as Branksea Castle, was originally a Device Fort constructed by Henry VIII between 1545 and 1547 to protect Poole Harbour in Dorset, England, from the threat of French attack. Located on Brownsea Island, it comprised a stone blockhouse with a hexagonal gun platform. It was garrisoned by the local town with six soldiers a...
Penhallam, Cornwall, England= Penhallam (Cornish: Maner Pennalyn/Plas Pennalyn[1]%29 is the site of a medieval manor house surrounded by a protective moat. It was designated as a Scheduled Monument in 1996 and is now in the guardianship of English Heritage.===Details===The site is situated in the civil parish of Jacobstow in northeast Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, one mile west of Week St ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Welford Park, Berkshire,England= Welford Park was originally the site of a monastic grange that was granted to Abingdon Abbey way back in Saxon times. The house was known as 'Farm Court' and was run on behalf of the monks by a bailiff.After the Dissolution, King Henry VIII used the place for a time as a hunting lodge. Later, in 1546, it was granted on a long-term lease to Sir Thomas Parry Senio...
Sunninghill Park, Berkshire, England= Sunninghill Park is a country house and estate of some 665 acres (2.69 km2; 1.039 sq mi), located north of Cheapside, in the civil parishes of Sunninghill and Ascot and Winkfield, adjoining the south-western boundary of Windsor Great Park in the English county of Berkshire. It was the official residence of the Duke of York from 1990 until 2004.SUNNINGHILL P...
Sunningdale Park (Northcote House), Berkshire, England===BRIEF HISTORY OF SUNNINGDALE PARK=====Early History===Although there is little evidence of local Stone-Age settlements, the light and sandy soil lacked the flints used for tools, there are many Bronze-Age barrows in the area.In Roman tomes the trees, heath and undergrowth covering Sunningdale formed part of Windsor Forest. The main highwa...
Historic Buildings of Rutland (now East Midlands) ==England Image right - Tolthorpe Hall >===== Image by Davecrosby uk - 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 Rutland (East Midlands), with links to sub-projects for specific buildings as app...
84 Plymouth Grove/Elizabeth Gaskell's House, Lancashire, England= Pictured right before restoration 84 Plymouth Grove, now known as Elizabeth Gaskell's House , is a Grade II* listed neoclassical villa in Manchester, England,[1] which was the residence of William and Elizabeth Gaskell from 1850 till their deaths in 1884 and 1865 respectively. The Gaskell household continued to occupy the villa a...