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Beaumont Palace, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England= Pictured right: Beaumont Palace in 1785 Beaumont Palace built by Henry I outside the North gate of Oxford city was originally intended as a Royal Palace situated conveniently for his royal hunting lodge at Woodstock.Set into a pillar in Beaumont Street, Oxford, you can find the inscription pictured below: King Richard the Lionheart was born here in...
Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England=The authentic history of Windsor Castle cannot be carried back beyond the 11th century. The romantic legends told by Froissart of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table at Windsor lack the foundation of prosaic record, but are interesting as representing the traditions as to the early history of Windsor which were current in the 14th and 15th centuries...
Glympton Park, Oxfordshire, England= Glympton Park is a former deer park at Glympton, 3.5 miles (5.6 km) north of Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England. It includes Glympton House (an 18th-century country house) and has a 2,000 acres (810 ha) estate including the village of Glympton, its Norman parish church of St. Mary, 21 stone cottages and 167 acres (68 ha) of parkland.===History===Glympton House ...
Sanderstead Court, Surrey, England====History===The building is located next to the All Saint’s Parish Church (c. 1230) in Sanderstead.The building did not appear on the Tithe map of 1844.[1]Sanderstead Court, SurreyIn 1675, the house was a three story, red brick mansion comprising a central core with two large wings at either end which were adorned with decorated chimneys. The central portion ...
Historic Buildings of Bedfordshire England Image right - Turvey Abbey © Copyright Stephen Craven and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence. Geograph The object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in the county of Bedfordshire, with links to sub-projects for specific buildings as appropriate. GENi profiles of people associated with ...
Historic Buildings of Leicestershire ==EnglandThe object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in the county of Leicestershire, 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 - Belvoir Ca...
Hampton Court Palace, London, England= Hampton Court Palace is a royal palace in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, Greater London, in the historic county of Middlesex, and within the postal town East Molesey, Surrey. It has not been inhabited by the British Royal Family since the 18th century. The palace is 11.7 miles (18.8 kilometres) south west of Charing Cross and upstream of centr...
Kensington Palace, London, England= Kensington Palace is a royal residence set in Kensington Gardens, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London, England. It has been a residence of the British Royal Family since the 17th century, and is the official London residence of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince Harry, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke and Duchess of Ken...
Kingston Lisle House, Oxfordshire, England=Ten hides in Sparsholt, afterwards called KINGSTON LISLE (Kingeston, Kyngeston Gerard, Kyngeston Lisle, xiv cent.), formed part of the royal demesne both in the reign of the Confessor and in 1086. This land, which was worth £20 and included 200 acres of meadow, remained in the possession of the Crown till the middle of the 12th century, when it was gra...
Historic Buildings of Norfolk ==England Image right - Holkham Hall >===== Image by Sean Cooper, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wiki The object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in the county of Norfolk, 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...
Historic Buildings of Somerset ==England Image right - Lytes Cary Manor ===== Image Geograph © Copyright Neil Kennedy and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence . The object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in the county of Somerset, with links to sub-projects for specific buildings as appropriate. GENi profiles of people associated with those esta...
Historic Buildings of Shropshire (Salop) ==England Image right - Apley Park , Norton >===== Image Geograph © Copyright Mat Fascione 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 Shropshire, with links to sub-projects for specif...
Trewithen House, Cornwall, England=One of the most elegant examples of 18th century architecture in CornwallTrewithen House is an architectural gem that hasn’t significantly changed its outward appearance since 1715 when Philip Hawkins first bought it. Since then, ten generations of the same family have lived there.First mentioned in the Domesday Survey of 1086 when it was owned by the Count of...
Bampton Castle, Oxfordshire, England=>===== Image from From old Books Wood, Anthony: “The Life Of Anthony à Wood” (1772); Status: out of copyright (called public domain in the USA)In 1314-15, during the reign of Edward II, Aylmer de Valence, Earl of Pembroke , obtained a license from the king to “make a castle of his house at Bampton.” This is the origin of ‘Bampton Castle’ – in the days before...
Woodstock Palace, Oxfordshire, England= Woodstock Palace Woodstock's lost royal palace[By Simon Pipe]"' Henry I kept leopards and porcupines here, and the future Elizabeth I was a prisoner in the lodge. Now, only a stone pillar near the Glyme Valley Way marks the site of a building graced by centuries of rulers. Blenheim Palace and its lake provide one of the greatest man-made spectacles in Eng...
Sutton Courtenay Manor, Oxfordshire, England=According to the 12th-century tradition of the house, the vill of SUTTON was given to Abingdon Abbey by King Ini (688–728). The story went on to relate how Abbot Hrethun in 801 gave 100 manentes of land here and £120 to Coenwulf, King of the Mercians, in exchange for Andersey Island. Be this as it may, Sutton remained a royal vill until the reign of ...
Stonor Manor, Oxfordshire, England= STONOR manor seems to have originated in the free tenement held by the Stonors under Pyrton manor in the 13th century and in acquisitions of land in the parish and outside made in the early 14th century. As Stonor manor formed a sub-manor of Pyrton its overlordship and mesne tenure were the same as those of the principal manor. The Stonors did suit at Pyrton....
Hanwell Manor & Castle, Oxfordshire, England=>===== Image Geograph © Copyright Ian Rob and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence . ==Manor==Before the Norman conquest of England an Anglo-Saxon called Lewin or Leofwine held the manor of Hanwell, along with those of Chinnor and Cowley. Whereas the conquering Normans dispossessed many Saxon landowners after 1066, Leofwine still held H...
Deddington Castle, Oxfordshire, England= Image Right - ("Here Bishop Odo, holding a club, gives strength to the boys" - Bishop Odo of Bayeux from the Bayeux tapestry >===== Image Public Domain, Wiki Commons Deddington Castle was a medieval fortification in the village of Deddington, Oxfordshire. It was built on a wealthy former Anglo-Saxon estate by Bishop Odo of Bayeux following the Norman c...
Wallingford Castle, Berkshire(now in Oxfordshire), England=>===== Image by Pitou250 - Own work, Public Domain, Wiki Commons Robert D'Oyley of Liseux built Wallingford Castle, a motte and bailey affair, between 1067 & 1071. He spent much of his time acquiring land, mostly at the expense of the church. The monks of Abingdon were eventually forced to conspire against him and pray for his repentanc...
Blenheim Palace=>===== Image By Blenheim_Palace_2006_cropped.jpg: *Blenheim_Palace_2006.jpg: gailf548 from New York State, USAderivative work: Nev1 (talk)derivative work: Durova (talk) - Blenheim_Palace_2006_cropped.jpg, CC BY 2.0, Wiki Blenheim Palace (pronounced /ˈblɛnɪm/ blen-im[1]%29 is a monumental country house situated in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England. It is the principal residence o...
Historic Buildings of Northumberland ==England Image right - The Keep at Alnwick Castle >===== Image Geograph © Copyright Len Williams 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 Northumberland, with links to sub-projects for s...
Historic Buildings of East Sussex ==England Image right - 14th Century Bodiam Castle ===== Image Geograph © Copyright J.Hannan-Briggs and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence . See>===== Historic Buildings of Britain and Ireland - Main Page ===== Historic Buildings of West Sussex The object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in East Sussex, with...
Historic Buildings of Staffordshire ==England Image right - Whitmore Hall ===== Image Geograph © Copyright Stephen Richards 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 Staffordshire, with links to sub-projects for specific bu...
Oakhurst Cottage, Surrey, England=Oakhurst, the National Trust-owned 16th Century farm labourer’s cottage,The restoration process has unearthed much new and fascinating information about the history of the cottage, a remarkable survival of a largely-unaltered humble agricultural worker's dwelling into 21st Century Surrey.As usual, village volunteers will be responsible for showing visitors arou...
Horsley Towers, Surrey, England=This drawing of East Horsley Park in 1839 shows it as Charles Barry designed it.‘East Horsley Park’, 1839There was a small tower with an onion dome over the front door, but during alterations in the 1850s Lord Lovelace added a porch in front of this entrance and a Great Hall, or Banqueting Hall as it was sometimes called, to the right of the porch. The large wind...
Historic Buildings of Suffolk ==England Image right - Kentwell Hall , Long Melford ===== Image Creative Commons License 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) Flickr John Fielding =====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 Suffolk, with links to sub-projects for specific buildings as appropriate...
Little Moreton Hall, Cheshire, England====History of the Hall.===Little Moreton Hall belonged to the Moreton family, a family that grew immensely rich by taking full advantage of social and religious upheavals of their times. With the decrease in population during the Black Death (1348) much land was placed on the market and was purchased cheaply by the Moretons. They were staunch loyalists and...
The Abbey at Sutton Courtenay, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), England=>===== Imahge Geograph © Copyright David Howard and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence . Written records of Sutton’s history began in AD 688 when Ine, King of Wessex , endowed the new monastery at Abingdon with the manor of Sutton. In AD 801 Sutton became a royal vill, with the monastery at Abingdon retaining th...
Buckingham Palace (Buckingham House) London, England= Buckingham Palace (UK /ˈbʌkɪŋəm/ /ˈpælɪs/[1][2]%29 is the London residence and principal workplace of the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom.[3] Located in the City of Westminster, the palace is often at the centre of state occasions and royal hospitality. It has been a focus for the British people at times of national rejoicing. Origina...
Calcot Park, Berkshire, England= Calcot Park is a country house estate, situated between Calcot and Tilehurst, suburbs of the town of Reading, and within the civil parish of Tilehurst. It is north of the Bath Road (now part of the A4).===History=== Calcot Park , originally the manor house of Tilehurst manor with a significantly larger estate than at present is thought to have originally been bu...
Historic Buildings of The Channel Islands See Historic Buildings of Britain and Ireland - Main Page ===== Image right - Mont Orgueil Castle or Gorey Castle , Saint Martin, Jersey - by Man vyi - Self-photographed, Public Domain, Wiki Commons
Historic Buildings of Hampshire ==England Image right - Beaulieu Palace House >===== Image - this photo was taken by Przemysław JahrAutorem zdjęcia jest Przemysław JahrWykorzystując zdjęcie proszę podać jako autora:Przemysław Jahr / Wikimedia Commons - Own work, Public Domain,[ WIKI]The object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in the county of Gloucestershire, w...
Foxhill House, Berkshire, England= Foxhill House is located in on Foxhill Drive in Whiteknights park, the grounds of Reading University in Earley. It is an excellent example of Late Victorian Gothic Revival being the masterpiece of Alfred Waterhouse who built it in 1868 for himself. The Old Whiteknights House nearby was also built b Waterhouse for his father. This is not just a red brick house,...
Charlecote Park, Warwickshire, England= Charlecote Park (grid reference SP263564) is a grand 16th century country house, surrounded by its own deer park, on the banks of the River Avon near Wellesbourne, about 4 miles (6 km) east of Stratford-upon-Avon and 5.5 miles (9 km) south of Warwick, Warwickshire, England. It has been administered by the National Trust since 1946 and is open to the publi...
Witley Park, Surrey, England= Witley Park was a 19th-century house and is an estate in Surrey, between Godalming and Haslemere. ===History===The estate named Lea Park between Godalming and Haslemere, Surrey, and the adjacent South Park Farm, were purchased in 1890 from the Earl of Derby. The title to the estate included the titular Lordship of the Manor and control of Hindhead Common. Lea Park ...
Keats House, London, England= Keats House is a museum[2] in a house once occupied by the Romantic poet John Keats. It is in Keats Grove, Hampstead, north London. Maps prior to ca.1915[3] show the road with one of its earlier names, John Street; the road has also been known as Albion Grove. The building was originally a pair of semi-detached houses known as "Wentworth Place". John Keats lodged i...
Historic Buildings of Yorkshire ==England Image right - Middleham Castle ===== Image by CJW - CJW, Attribution, 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 Yorkshire, with links to sub-projects for specific buildings as appropriate. GENi profiles of people associated...
Lanyhydrock House, Cornwall, England= Lanhydrock (Cornish: Lannhedrek,[1] meaning "church enclosure of St Hydrock") is a civil parish centred on a country estate and mansion in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The parish lies south of the town of Bodmin[2] and is bounded to the north by Bodmin parish, to the south by Lanlivery parish and to the west by Lanivet parish. The population was 171 in the 200...
Historic Buildings of Derbyshire ==England Image right - Holme Hall , Bakewell >>===== Image by Alan Heardman, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wiki The object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in the county of Derbyshire, 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...
Langtry Manor, Dorset, England= The Langtry Manor (formerly The Red House) is a country house hotel at 26 Derby Road in the East Cliff area of Bournemouth, England. It was formerly in the parish of Christchurch but is now in the Borough of Bournemouth. There is a strong and developed local tradition that The Red House was built by the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) in 1877 for his mistress ...
Carswell Manor, Berkshire (Now Oxfordshire), England= Carswell Manor is a Jacobean country house at Carswell in the civil parish of Buckland in the English county of Oxfordshire (formerly Berkshire). It is located just north of the A420 road between Swindon and Oxford. The Manor of CARSWELL (fn. 62) (Kerswell, xiii cent.; Karswell, Craswelle, Cassewell, xiv cent.) was held of the St. Philiberts...
The Albany, Piccadilly, London, Middlesex,England= The Albany, or simply Albany , is an apartment complex in Piccadilly, London.===Building===The Albany was built in 1770–74 by Sir William Chambers for Viscount Melbourne ' as Melbourne House. It is a three-storey mansion, seven bays (windows) wide, with a pair of service wings flanking a front courtyard. In 1791, Prince Frederick, Duke of York ...
Pooley Hall, Warwickshire, England= Pooley Hall is a Manor house built in 1509 on the outskirts of Polesworth, Warwickshire, England. It is a Grade II* listed building and a private residence.===The Cockayne Family===The present Hall was built in 1509 by Sir Thomas Cockayne "The Magnificent", who was knighted at the Battle of Tournai by King Henry VII. It was built on the site of an earlier Hal...
Trelowth Manor, Cornwall, England= Trelowth (also Trelowith, or Trelowthe, or Trelowthes; meaning, "the town place of trees")[1][2] is a hamlet in Cornwall, England, UK. It lies 2.3 miles (3.7 km) by road southwest of central St Austell,[3] and is situated immediately to the northwest of Polgooth. The hamlet is part of the parish of St Mewan.===History===Trelowth was mentioned in Domesday Book ...
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...
Historic Buildings of Herefordshire ==England Image right - Hellens Manor , also known as Hellens House or simply Hellens and located in the village of Much Marcle in Herefordshire>=====Image Geograph © Copyright Bob Embleton and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence The object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in the county of Herefordshire, with li...
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...
Albury Park, Surrey, England= Albury Park is a country park and Grade II* listed historic country house (Albury Park Mansion) in Surrey, England. It covers over 150 acres (0.61 km2); within this area is the old village of Albury, which consists of three or four houses and a church. The River Tillingbourne runs through the grounds. ===Pre-1890===The Saxon Old St Peter and St Paul's Church, withi...
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...
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 Britain and Ireland ==Main PageThis is the umbrella page fro Historic Buildings of England projects Image Right - Buckingham Palace London ===== Image © Copyright Lewis Clarke and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence. Geograph Historic houses can be stately homes, the birthplace of a famous person, or houses with interesting history or architecture.The object...
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...
Cambridge House, Piccadilly, London, England= Cambridge House is a grade I listed mansion on the northern side of Piccadilly (Number 94) in central London, England, named after one of its owners, the Duke of Cambridge, 7th son of George III. It has also been known as Egremont House, Cholmondeley House, The Naval and Military Club, and the In and Out Club.===History===The house was built for Cha...
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 ...
Mapledurham, Oxfordshire, England= Mapledurham "the maple tree enclosure" appears in Doomsday as two manors, Mapledurham Gurney belonging to William de Warenne, while Milo Crispin, Lord of the honour of Wallingford, owned the smaller Mapledurham Chazey.(pictured right)The larger manor takes its name from Gerard de Gournay, to whom it passed as a marriage portion. It passed again by marriage in ...
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...