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Silwood Park, Berkshire, England=The independent manor of Sunninghill seems to have emerged in the mid-14th century and it was purchased by a leading local man, John de Sunninghill in 1362. His manor house was probably in Silwood Park. By Tudor times it was known as ‘Eastmore’ and this was probably from where Prince Arthur, the eldest son of King Henry VII, wrote a letter to All Souls’ College,...
Historic Buildings of Nottinghamshire ==England Image right - Kelham Hall >===== Image Geograph © Copyright David Hallam-Jones and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence . =====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 Nottinghamshire, with links to sub-projects for specific...
Brimstage Hall, Cheshire, England==HISTORY===1175 TO 1350==Expert opinions suggest Brimstage Hall was built sometime between 1175 and 1350, though nobody is quite sure of why, or for whom, it was built. The original house was compact and fortified, enclosed in a moat and high embankment.==1398==The first recorded occupant of the Hall was Sir Hugh Hulse and his wife Marjory, who were granted lic...
Fletchers House - Oxfordshire Museum, Oxfordshire, England====Fletcher's House===In 1279 Adam Bennet held a house, oven, 2 selds, and a forge at the corner of Park Street and Brown's Lane. (fn. 27a) In 1468-9 Thomas Fletcher was paying 6d. for a large vacant plot there which extended north to Harrison's Lane. (fn. 28a) In 1526 a house there belonged to another Thomas Fletcher , and in 1581 was ...
Historic Buildings of Lincolnshire Image right - Grimsthorpe Castle >===== Image by Wehha - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, WIKI ==EnglandThe object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in the county of Lincolnshire, with links to sub-projects for specific buildings as appropriate. GENi profiles of people associated with those establishments can be linked to this project ...
Forde Abbey, Dorset (& Somerset), England=Forde Abbey is a privately owned former Cistercian monastery in Dorset, England with a mailing address in Chard, Somerset. The house and gardens are run as a tourist attraction while the 1,600-acre (6.5 km2) estate is farmed to provide additional revenue. Forde Abbey is a Grade I listed building.===History===Between 1133-36, wealthy nobleman Richard de ...
Historic Buildings of Essex ==EnglandThe object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in the county of Dorset, 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 right - Hedingham Castle in the vil...
Historic Buildings of Warwickshire ==England Image right - Warwick Castle ===== Image by DeFacto - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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 Warwickshire, with links to sub-projects for specific buildings as appropriate. GENi profiles of people as...
Ditchley Park, Oxfordshire, England= The mansion at Ditchley was built by the[ George Lee, 2nd Earl of Lichfield second Earl of Litchfield ], a member of the Lee family, in 1722, to a design by James Gibbs . It stands on the site of an earlier timber-framed family house in classic north Oxfordshire wooded farmland, once the royal hunting ground of Wychwood Forest.The entries in this section giv...
Edgcote House Northamptonshire (Now Oxfordshire), England= Edgcote House is an 18th-century country house of two storeys plus a basement and a nine bay frontage.[2] It is built of local ironstone with dressings of fine grey stone.[2] Features include a carved mahogany staircase, and a drawing room decorated in a Chinese style. It is a Grade I listed building.In 1543 the Edgcote estate, which ha...
Historic Buildings of Hertfordshire ==England Image right - Hatfield House >===== Image Right by Allan Engelhardt - Hatfield House, CC BY-SA 2.0, WIKI The object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in the county of Hertfordshire, with links to sub-projects for specific buildings as appropriate. GENi profiles of people associated with those establishments can b...
Lansdowne House, London, England= Lansdowne House is a building to the southwest of Berkeley Square in central London, England. It was designed by Robert Adam as a private house and for most of its time as a residence it belonged to the Petty-FitzMaurice family, Marquesses of Lansdowne. Since 1935, it has been the home of the Lansdowne Club. The positioning of the property was rather unusual. I...
Shottesbrooke Manor, Berkshire, England=At the date of the Domesday Survey the manor of SHOTTESBROOK was held of the king by Alward the goldsmith, whose father had held it of Queen Edith in the reign of Edward the Confessor. In 1166 the manor is entered on the Pipe Roll as 'Sotesbroch aurifabrorum' and its tenure is returned later as that of furnishing charcoal to the king's goldsmith for the k...
Watlington Manor, Oxfordshire, England=In 1068 the estate, later known as WATLINGTON manor , was held for 8 hides by Robert d'Oilly , Constable of Oxford castle. He died without male heirs and most of his land went to his brother Nigel d'Oilly , but Watlington may have been granted earlier to his daughter Maud , who married firstly Miles Crispin , custodian of Walling ford castle, and secondly ...
Nonsuch Palace, Surrey, England=Pictured Right: - These reliefs in the Lumley Chapel are believed to be the only surviving depictions of the Nonsuch Palace interiors. Nonsuch Palace /ˈnʌnˌsʌtʃ/ was a Tudor royal palace, built by Henry VIII in Surrey, England; it stood from 1538 to 1682–3. Its site lies in Nonsuch Park on the boundaries of the borough of Epsom and Ewell in Surrey and the London ...
Cranbourne Lodge, Berkshire, England= Cranbourne Lodge Round in Cranbourne Chase, now part of Windsor Great Park with only the Grade II* listed Cranbourne Tower remaining, it was originally a keeper's lodge for the royal hunting grounds of Cranbourne Chase.===History===Dating from as early as the 13th Century when the royal forest of Windsor was divided up, a substantial house and the first tow...
Rycote Manor, Oxfordshire, EnglandRycote Park, near Thame in Oxfordshire, was the site of a mansion originally built in Tudor times for Sir Richard Fowler, Giles Heron or John, Baron Williams of Thame - which one is not known. It was almost completely demolished in June 1807 and all that remains today is part of the south-west tower. The fourteenth-century Rycote Chapel, built for the medieval ...
Burford Priory, Oxfordshire, England=Burford Priory is a Grade I listed country house and former priory at Burford in West Oxfordshire, England.>===== Image Chris Moore Flickr under Licence ==History=====Origin===The house is on the site of a 13th-century Augustinian hospital. In the 1580s an Elizabethan house was built by Sir Lawrence Tanfield, incorporating remnants of the Priory Hospital.[2]...
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire, England= Waddesdon Manor is a country house in the village of Waddesdon, in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located in the Aylesbury Vale, 6.6 miles (10.6 km) west of Aylesbury. The house was built in the Neo-Renaissance style of a French château between 1874 and 1889 for Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild (1839–1898) as a weekend residence for grand entertaining.Th...
Fetcham Park, Surrey, England= Fetcham Park House is a Queen Anne mansion designed by the English architect William Talman with internal murals by the renowned artist Louis Laguerre and grounds originally landscaped by George London. It is located in the parish of Fetcham in Surrey.Construction of the present mansion began in 1699 although a reference in the Domesday survey suggests that there ...
Lambeth Palace, London, England= Lambeth Palace is the official London residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury in England, in north Lambeth, on the south bank of the River Thames, 400 m[1] south-east of the Palace of Westminster which has the Houses of Parliament on the opposite bank. The building – originally called the Manor of Lambeth or Lambeth House – has been the London residence of the...
Ockwells, Berkshire, England= Ockwells Manor is a timber-framed 15th century manor house in the civil parish of Cox Green, adjoining Maidenhead, in the English county of Berkshire. It was previously in the parish of Bray.Ockwells is an early example of a manor built without fortifications, which Sir Nikolaus Pevsner called "the most refined and the most sophisticated timber-framed mansion in En...
Oakley Court, Berkshire, England=Remarkably little is known about the property despite the fact that it was built over 120 years ago. Oakley Court is situated along a stretch of the Thames known as Water Oakley. It was first shown on maps around 1800 and the name appears to originate from Cornish Breton in which it appears as "Warhta Eog Lee" — The Upper Salmon Place.The Court was originally bu...
Blackden Hall & Toad Hall, Blackden, Cheshire, England=There seems to be litte written about Blackden Hall in Cheshire however there were, it seems two (at least) one referred to as 'old Hall' (Toad Hall) when the second was built. The pictures might suggest even more than two...===Structure===The south west elevation of Toad Hall has been rebuilt in brick, but the surviving timber frame is of ...
Kingston Bagpuize House, Berkshire (Now Oxfordshire), England====Introduction===The village's suffix comes from the De Bachepuis family who were lords of the manor from the 11th century. The De Kingstons later took over and evidently took their name from the village. John Latton purchased the estate in 1542. The family's main residences were Symeon's Manor in Chilton and Upton Manor in Blewbury...