Kew Palace, London, England= Kew Palace is a British royal palace in Kew Gardens on the banks of the Thames up river from London. There have been at least three palaces at Kew, and two have been known as Kew Palace; the first building may not have been known as Kew as no records survive other than the words of another courtier. One palace survives and is open to visitors. Grade I listed,[1] it ...
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Ginge Manor, Oxfordshire, England= Ginge Manor or Ginge Manor House is a manor house at West Ginge in the civil parish of West Hendred in the English county of Oxfordshire (formerly Berkshire), 3.9 miles (6.3 km) by road to the southeast of Wantage. It became a Grade II listed building on 25 October 1951. It is the family seat of the Viscount Astor and is currently occupied by William Astor , 4...
Red House,Bexley Heath, Formerly Kent, England= Red House is a significant Arts and Crafts building located in the town of Bexleyheath in Southeast London, England. Co-designed in 1859 by the architect Philip Webb and the designer William Morris, it was created to serve as a family home for the latter, with construction being completed in 1860. It is recognised as one of the most important exam...
Historic Buildings of Montgomeryshire, Wales>==Now in Powys Image right - Powis Castle See Historic Buildings of Britain and Ireland - Main Page See Table of Welsh Place names (Table listing where places are in Current [Post 1974/1996] Welsh Counties/Historic Counties ==HELP is always welcome!! If you have information about any of the Buildings mentioned below please share it here. If you have...
Witanhurst, Highgate, London, England= Witanhurst is a large Grade II listed early 20th-century Georgian Revival mansion located on 5 acres (2.0 ha) in Highgate, North-West London. The house has had several prominent owners since being rebuilt by the soap magnate Sir Arthur Crosfield, and after several decades of increasing dilapidation is currently undergoing refurbishment after its 2008 sale ...
Stanton Harcourt Manor, Oxfordshire, England=In 1066 STANTON , including land in South Leigh, was held by Alnod, and in 1086 by Odo of Bayeux: it was reckoned at 26 hides,of which one lay in Hanborough and was given to Oseney abbey c. 1138. Another 1 ½ hide in 'Pereio', probably in South Leigh, and held under Odo by Wadard, was apparently absorbed into the main Stanton estate before the late 12...
Restormel Castle, Cornwall, England= Restormel Castle (Cornish: Kastel Rostorrmel)[1] lies by the River Fowey near Lostwithiel in Cornwall, England, UK. It is one of the four chief Norman castles of Cornwall, the others being Launceston, Tintagel and Trematon. The castle is notable for its perfectly circular design. Although once a luxurious residence to the Earl of Cornwall, the castle became ...
Wootton House, Bedfordshire ==EnglandWootton House, Bedfordshire, England* Type of Building: Small country house* Condition: * Location: Bedfordshire, England* Category: Grade II** Date Listed: May 1952 by>> The listing notes: “Simple interior with some remaining original panelling”. The stables were listed separately in August 1987 as Grade II. They date from the same time as the house and are...
Eltham Palace, London, England= Eltham Palace is a large house in Eltham, within the Royal Borough of Greenwich, South East London, England. It is an unoccupied royal residence and owned by the Crown Estate. In 1995 its management was handed over to English Heritage which restored the building in 1999 and opened it to the public.[1] It has been said the internally Art Deco house is a "masterpie...
Haines Hill, Berkshire, England= Haines Hill, in the liberty of Broad Hinton, is a large house, the older portion of which is Elizabethan or early Jacobean. Internally there is a long gallery similar to that at Bramshill and other large houses of the period. This part may have been built by William Hide, called of Haines Hill, who died in 1589. The house was formerly H-shaped in plan and had se...
Worcester Park House, Surrey, England= Worcester Park House , built in 1607, whose ruins are in Surrey, in the United Kingdom, was one of the residences of the 4th Earl of Worcester, who was appointed Keeper of the Great Park in 1606. In 1670 a long lease of the house and park was granted to Sir Robert Long, 1st Baronet, by Charles II. The area known as Worcester Park was once part of a Great P...
Woodcote Park, Surrey, England= Woodcote Park is a stately home near Epsom, Surrey, England, currently owned by the Royal Automobile Club. It was formerly the seat of a number of prominent English families, including the Calvert family, Barons Baltimore and Lords Proprietor of the colony of Maryland. The interior of the house once boasted a gilded library and number of fine murals by notable It...
Woking Palace, Surrey, England=This was not only a palace but also in effect the manor house of the old Royal Manor of Woking which had more or less similar boundaries to the ancient parish of St Peters, Woking. The Palace stood in a park the boundaries of which were roughly the present day Old Woking Road, Pyrford Common Road, Church Hill and Newark Lane with the River Wey as its southern boun...
A brief history of Basildon, Berkshire= Basildon is a Thames-side Parish in the Royal County of Berkshire, lying between Pangbourne to the south and Streatley to the north and some 8 miles west of Reading. It has a population of 1600 and comprises some 3,500 acres.Nowadays it is best known for Basildon Park, a National Trust property, built by John Carr of York between 1777-1783 for Sir Francis...
Durham House, London, England= Durham House, or Durham Inn, was the historic London town house of the Bishop of Durham in the Strand. Its gardens descended to the River Thames.===History=== Origins Bishop Thomas Hatfield built the opulent Durham House in about 1345. It had a large chapel and a high-ceilinged great hall supported by marble pillars. On the Strand side its gatehouse led to a large...
Workhouse "Spike"= The Project: This is an umbrella project for all workhouses and as such should not have profiles assigned to it unless perhaps the town of the workhouse a person was in is unknown. To find the appropriate sub-project go to the "Historic Buildings of ...." project for the appropriate county where there should be a sub-heading of "Workhouse (Poor House) "Spike"" There is a lot ...
Historic Buildings of Gloucestershire ==England Image right - Berkeley Castle >===== Image Geograph © Copyright Philip Halling 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 Gloucestershire, with links to sub-projects for specific...
Hillingdon House, London, England= Hillingdon House is a Grade II listed mansion in Hillingdon, Greater London. The original house was built in 1717 as a hunting lodge for the Duke of Schomberg. It was destroyed by fire and the present house was built in its place in 1844.The British Government purchased Hillingdon House in 1915 and it became a military hospital. In 1917, what would become the ...
Bedford House, Bloomsbury, London, Middlesex, England= Bedford House , is an estate in central London, owned by the Russell family who possess the peerage of Duke of Bedford. The estate was originally based in Covent Garden,[1] then stretched to include Bloomsbury in 1669.[2] The Covent Garden property was sold for £2 million in 1913, by Herbrand Russell , 11th Duke of Bedford to the MP and lan...
Fulham Palace, London, England= Fulham Palace in Fulham, London (formerly in Middlesex), England, at one time the main residence of the Bishop of London, is of medieval origin. It was the country home of the Bishops of London from at least 11th century until 1975, when it was vacated. It is still owned by the Church of England, although managed by the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham an...
The Manor Studios (Shipton on Cherwell), Oxfordshire, England= The Manor Studio (aka The Manor) was a recording studio in the manor house at the village of Shipton-on-Cherwell in Oxfordshire, England, north of the city of Oxford.===Overview===The Manor was the second residential recording studio in the United Kingdom. The first being Rockfield Studios in Monmouthshire[citation needed] The conce...
Betchworth Castle, Surrey, England= Betchworth Castle is a mostly crumbled ruin of a fortified medieval stone house with some tall, two-storey corners strengthened in the 18th century, in the north of the semi-rural parish of Brockham. It is built on a sandstone spur overlooking the western bank of the Mole in Surrey in England. The ruin is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and is in the lowest cate...
Kensington House, London, Middlesex, England====Introduction===Colby House and Kensington House, a pair of major houses which formerly stood next to one another on the south side of Kensington High Street at its eastern extermity; their short-lived successor, the second Kensington House, lavishly built by Baron Grant in 1873–6 but never permanently occupied; and Kensington Court, a development ...
Ascot place is owned by Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan and is situated in Windlesham in Berkshire with the surmised value of £60 million. Ascot Place was bought by Zayed bin Sultan al- Nahyan the ruler of Abu Dhabi and president of the United Arab Emirates for £18 million in 1989. He bought it from the heir of Mercedes-Benz fortune Mick Flick .The Grade II listed 18th century mansion is only 15 min...