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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...
Cobham Park, Surrey, England= Cobham Park is a country mansion and estate situated to the south of Cobham and encompassing the majority of Downside, Surrey, England it was formerly the seat of John Ligonier, 1st Earl Ligonier. It was later the home of Harvey Christian Combe, who was Lord Mayor of London and a partner in the Combe Delafield and Co. brewery. The estate, with the exception of the ...
Dorfold Hall, Cheshire, England= Dorfold Hall (SJ635524) is a Jacobean mansion in Acton, near Nantwich, in Cheshire, UK. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.[1] It was considered by Nikolaus Pevsner to be one of the two finest Jacobean houses in Cheshire.[2]The present owners are the Roundells.[3]===History===Dorfold or Deofold means ...
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...
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...
Schomberg House, Pall Mall, London, England= Schomberg House is a mansion on the south side of Pall Mall in central London which has a colourful history. Only the street facade survives today. It was built for The 3rd Duke of Schomberg, a Huguenot general in the service of the British Crown.[1] It was adapted from Portland House, which in turn has been created by the Countess of Portland by con...
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...
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 ...
Milton Court, Surrey, England=The manor remained with the nuns until the dissolution of the monasteries, when the king exchanged it for other Surrey lands with John Carleton of Walton on Thames, and Joyce his wife. From John Carleton the manor passed to Richard Thomas, who was holding it in 1552. Richard Thomas continued to hold under Philip and Mary; his tenure was not, however, popular among ...
Tilehurst Manor, Berkshire, England= The manor of TILEHURST is not mentioned in the Domesday Survey, but it is possible that it was included with other hamlets in the manor of Reading. This seems more probable, since in 1291 Tilehurst is enumerated among the hamlets of Reading. Tilehurst came into the possession of Reading Abbey before the 13th century, and the manor was held by the abbey until...
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 ...
Park Place, Berkshire,England= Park Place is a historic Grade II Listed country house and gardens in the civil parish of Remenham in Berkshire, England, set in large grounds above the River Thames near Henley, Oxfordshire.===History===Lord Archibald Hamilton bought the estate in 1719 from Mrs Elizabeth Baker and built a new villa on the site.Frederick, Prince of Wales (father of King George III...
Osterley Park, London, England= Osterley Park is a mansion set in a large park of the same name. It is in the London Borough of Hounslow, part of the western suburbs of London.When the house was built it was surrounded by rural countryside. It was one of a group of large houses close to London which served as country retreats for wealthy families, but were not true country houses on large agric...
Padworth Manor, Berkshire, England=The earliest mention of PADWORTH occurs in 956, when 5 cassates of land there were granted by King Edwy to his man Eadric.t is possible that this estate afterwards became the larger manor of Padworth, which was held by three thegns in parage in the reign of Edward the Confessor, and was in 1086 the property of Stephen son of Eirard. The manor was held of the k...
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...
Hankelow Hall, Cheshire, England=The present house dates from the early 18th century, and was remodelled by William Baker in about 1755. It was built for Gabriel Wettenhall, and altered for his son, Nathaniel. During the 20th century the house was uninhabited and it became neglected. In 1989 it was bought by a property developer who has been restoring it. In this process, evidence was found of ...
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 ...
Phyllis Court, Oxfordshire, England=The present-day Phyllis Court is a stuccoed, Italianate mansion house on Henley's northern edge, built in the early 1840s. Set amidst sloping lawns which sweep attractively down to the Thames, it has been an up-market country club since 1906.But the site itself is much older. Circumstantial evidence suggests that there may have been a small royal manor house ...
Nuneham House, Oxfordshire, England= Nuneham House is a Palladian villa, at Nuneham Courtenay in Oxfordshire England. It was built for Simon Harcourt, 1st Earl Harcourt in 1756. It is owned by Oxford University and is currently used as a retreat centre by the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University. It is a Grade II* listed building.Lord Harcourt demolished the old village in the 1760s in ord...
Nuffield Place, Oxfordshire, England= Nuffield Place was Lord Nuffield’s home from 1933 until his death in 1963. Originally named Merrow Mount, the house was designed by Oswald Patridge Milne in 1914 for Sir John Bowring Wimble, a shipping magnate. When Sir John Wimble died his widow sold the house to William Morris. Having just been raised to peerage Morris took his title from the local villag...
Britwell Salome House & Manor Estate, Oxfordshire, England=Before the Conquest BRITWELL was one of the estates of Wulfstan , who also held Adwell and other neighbouring manors. (fn. 46) By 1086 Miles Crispin had obtained it. (fn. 47) The overlordship of Britwell Salome, therefore, descended with his lands and Britwell became a member of the honor of Wallingford and subsequently of the honor of ...
Cogges Manor, Oxfordshire, England Cogges Manor Farm is a one-time working farm in Cogges near Witney in Oxfordshire, now a heritage centre operated by a charitable trust and open to the public. Its aim is to give visitors an insight into farm life, and how the food they eat is husbanded or cultivated. Additionally it provides workshops for school children and adults about food production, loca...
Sulgrave Manor, Northamptonshire (Now Oxfordshire), England= Sulgrave Manor was built by Lawrence Washington , George Washington’s five times great grandfather, in the mid-1500s. The entrance porch was completed soon after Queen Elizabeth's accession to the throne and Lawrence Washington displayed his loyalty to the new Queen by depicting her coat of arms and initials in plaster-work upon its g...