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4 unusual facts about English country house


English country house

It is interesting that while the latter two are ducal palaces, Montacute, although built by a Master of the Rolls to Queen Elizabeth I, was occupied for the next 400 years by his descendants, who were gentry without a London townhouse, rather than aristocracy.

Jeremy Musson

Jeremy Musson (1965- ) is an English author, editor and presenter, specialising in British country houses and architecture.

Sant'Olcese

At Comago, the Comune holds the Park & circa 1850 Victorian English country house, the Villa Serra.

Susan Lawrence

Lucy Norton, the translator of the writings of Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de Saint-Simon, and Lesley Lewis, art historian and author of "The Private Life of a Country House", were among her nieces.


Anmer Hall

Anmer Hall is a listed country house in Anmer, Norfolk, England.

Appley, Isle of Wight

Until the early 1960s, it was largely based on the former English country house of Appley Towers (seat of the Hutt family, and later of Sir Hedworth Williamson) and neighbouring Appley Farm.

Mary Wriothesley, Countess of Southampton

Following his mother's death in 1574 he began to build a great new country house at Dogmersfield.

Middleton Stoney

Middleton Park is a neo-Georgian country house built in 1938 by Edwin Lutyens and his son Robert for the 9th Earl of Jersey.

North Sheen Recreation Ground

Opened in June 1909 and extended in 1923, the recreation ground was originally part of an orchard belonging to the Popham Estate, owned by the Leyborne Pophams whose family seat was at Littlecote House, Wiltshire.

William Danby

Danby almost entirely rebuilt his country house at Swinton, from designs by John Carr and local builder-architects, with some interior design contributed by James Wyatt.

Winnold House

Winnold House, formerly the Benedictine Priory of St. Winwaloe, is a country house near Wereham in Norfolk, England.


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Arthur Bryant Triggs

His younger brother was Inigo Triggs, the English country house architect and garden designer and author.

The Fairmont Hamilton Princess

Rumor has it that it was nicknamed 'Bletchley-in-the-Tropics' after the English country house where the Enigma code was broken (Sir William Stephenson, the Canadian-born British spymaster who was the subject of the book and film A Man Called Intrepid resided for a time at the Princess, following the war, before buying a home on the island, and was often visited there by his former subordinate, James Bond novelist Ian Fleming).