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7 unusual facts about Manor house


Dume

At the place of Cabanas, there is a Manor house with a chapel, where on 25 December 1888, the resigning Archbishop of Braga Dom João Crisóstomo de Amorim Pessoa died.

Foremark

The Manor house Foremarke Hall was built by the orders of one of the Baronets in the family in 1762 and now sits in the centre of Foremark;.

Manor House, 21 Soho Square

In 1838 the house was acquired by Edmund Crosse and Thomas Blackwell of the condiment firm Crosse & Blackwell.

It was originally built in 1678 as a townhouse but through its history has also been a notorious brothel, the headquarters of Crosse & Blackwell and is now an office building.

During Winn's tenure George Vertue recorded that a "large family picture of Sir Thomas More" was hung there, this was a copy by Rowland Lockey of the painting (now lost) by Hans Holbein and had been commissioned by the More family in 1592.

Newton Valence

Adjoining the churchyard is the Manor House (17th–18th Century), now divided into two dwellings.

Voorschoten

For example, The old Castle Duivenvoorde, and the Manor Vredenhof - rebuilt from Diederik Jansz. Graeff, and until the 18th century in the hands from the De Graeff family - are located in or near Voorschoten.


Adventures in Preservation

AiP volunteers have played a key role in restoration projects at the Francis Mill in Waynesville, North Carolina; the Weisel Bridge, Quakertown, Pennsylvania; Manor House in Oplotnica, Slovenia; the gardens of the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum, The Bronx, New York; and adobe residences in Mesilla, New Mexico.

Apedale Hall

Apedale Hall is a manor house near Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire, it was rebuilt in 1826 by the Heathcote family in the Elizabethan style by British Industrialist Richard Edensor Heathcote, (1780 - Genoa, Italy, 1850), but was demolished in 1934, due to subsidence from the coal mines underneath.

Bitsa Park

The park is home to more than 500 species of plants, including lindens, oaks, and fine firs, planted by Mikhail Katkov's son at his family manor in the 19th century.

Boughton Malherbe

Boughton Place, a 16th-century manor house, was home to Sir Henry Wotton and other members of the Wotton family and was later owned by the Earls of Chesterfield and the Earls Cornwallis.

Château de Kérouzéré

The Château de Kérouzéré is a 15th-century Breton castle (or manor-house) in the commune of Sibiril in the Finistère département of France.

Château des Milandes

Built around 1489, it was the main house of the lords of Caumont until 1535, who preferred to live in this manor house instead of the large, uncomfortable medieval castle of Château de Castelnaud-la-Chapelle.

Coulston

Baynton House is an exquisite Georgian manor house (with much older origins) set in extensive gardens, and is next to the Coulston Deer Park, which still has a herd of deer and is owned together with Baynton House.

Deerpath Inn

Architect William C. Jones designed the hotel in the Tudor Revival style; his plan was inspired by a 15th-century manor house in Chiddingstone, England.

Ebrington Manor

Ebrington Manor is a Grade II listed manor house in Ebrington, Gloucestershire, England.

Eijsden Castle

Eijsden Castle (Dutch:Kasteel Eijsden) is a moated manor house with several farm buildings, a gatehouse and castle park, in Eijsden-Margraten, Limburg, Netherlands.

Ettington

The manor house, which can trace its origins back to the Domesday Book, is now the Ettington Park Hotel owned by the Shirley Family and leased to Hand Picked Hotels, and was featured in MGM's 1963 horror film The Haunting.

Grimston Manor

Grimston Manor was a manor house in Norfolk, England.

Gripenberg Castle

Gripenberg Castle (Swedish: Gripenbergs slott) is a wooden manor house near Tranås in Småland, Sweden.

Hever Castle

The second period was when the castle, then in need of repair, was converted into a manor in 1462 by Geoffrey Boleyn, younger brother of Thomas Boleyn, Master of Gonville Hall, Cambridge.

Krummbek Manor

Krummbek Manor (German: Herrenhaus Krummbek) is a manor house in the municipality of Lasbek.

Lydiard Tregoze

Mentioned in Doomsday as a manor belonging to Alfred of Marlborough Baron of Ewyas and a Tenant-in-Chief to King William I. Near Royal Wootton Bassett, the parish of Lydiard Tregoze was part of the Kingsbridge Hundred, while its village originally centred on the medieval parish church of St Mary and the nearby manor house, Lydiard House, which was the home of the St John family, Viscounts Bolingbroke.

Minster Lovell

Minster Lovell Hall and Dovecote are extensive ruins of a 15th-century manor house, once belonging to William Lovel's descendant, Lord Lovell.

Mullen Advertising

The agency is headquartered at 40 Broad Street in Boston, where it moved on June 1, 2009, following 22 years in a manor house in Wenham, Massachusetts.

Old Shute House

Old Shute House (known as Shute Barton between about 1789 and the 20th century), located at Shute, near Colyton, Axminster, Devon, is the remnant of a mediaeval manor house with Tudor additions, today in the ownership of the National Trust.

Parvise

In some churches these rooms were used for school rooms and in Castle Ashby was the home of a woman - who saved the manor house from burning when she saw the fire taking hold from her room.

Preston Plucknett

The still preserved manor house of Preston Plucknett was owned in the early 15th century by John Stourton (d. 1438; cousin of his namesake John Stourton, 1st Baron Stourton), a justice of the peace, sheriff, and several times Member of Parliament for Somerset, who, helped by three good marriages, accumulated a respectable wealth.

RAF Condover

Airmen and WAAF personnel were accommodated in prefabricated Quonset hutting and the officers were housed in the nearby magnificent Elizabethan manor house, Condover Hall, that had been commandeered by the War Office for the duration of the war.

Ruardyn Castle

It was originally a manor house built in Norman times, but because of its strategic importance it was crenellated in 1310 and became a castle.

Rushton, Northamptonshire

Other notable buildings in the village include a Manor House east of the church, Manor Farm House (17th-century) and the Georgian Old Rectory .

Sir Edward Littleton, 4th Baronet

The original moated manor house became ruinous after the Littletons abandoned it, but the Gatehouse and Chapel were restored in the 1880s.

St Martin's Chapel, Chisbury

St Martin's Chapel, Chisbury is a Mediaeval former chapel next to the manor house in the hamlet of Chisbury, Wiltshire.

Tamsel

The estate is located in what is today the small village of Dąbroszyn, Poland, and consists of a manor house, a church and a park.

Thorpe Waterville Castle

Thorpe Waterville Castle was a medieval fortified manor house near Thorpe Waterville, Northamptonshire, England.

Westcourt Manor

Westcourt Manor (alternates: West Court Manor, or South Shorwell) is one of three manor houses, along with Woolverton and Northcourt, that is located in Shorwell, on the Isle of Wight, England.

Woking Palace

Woking Palace is a former manor house of the Royal Manor of Woking on the outskirts of Woking, near the village of Old Woking, Surrey.


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Åkerö Manor

During the 16th century, the owners at the time, the Bielke family, erected a renaissance manor house.

Archduke Ludwig Salvator of Austria

Much of what was his property now belongs to Michael Douglas, most notably the Moorish style palace 'S'Estaca' that Ludwig converted from a ruined old manor house.

Brooksby

Brooksby Hall is a 16th-century manor house with conference and banqueting facilities.

Checkendon

The Hookend Recording Studio, in the manor house at nearby Hook End, was owned by David Gilmour of the band Pink Floyd and is now owned by Mark White, singer/songwriter with the band Godnose.

Ciężkowice

Ignacy Jan Paderewski manor house with a spacious park, located on the other side of the Biala river, in the village of Kąśna Dolna.

Coleorton Hall

His son Sir George Beaumont, 7th Baronet rebuilt the old manor house in about 1804 to a design by architect George Dance the Younger.

Eastleach House

Designed by Walter Cave, architect, stylistically the house is Cotswold manor house, Jacobean Revival.

Firle Place

Firle Place is a Manor house in Firle, East Sussex, United Kingdom and is the family seat of Nicolas Gage, 8th Viscount Gage, whose family the Viscounts Gage have owned the land at Firle since acquiring it from the Levett family in the 15th century.

Flaxman Charles John Spurrell

Some years before his death, he retired to Bessingham Manor House in Norfolk, one of the seats of the Spurrell family, and was no longer active in the archaeological world.

Frederick William Wilson

He was the 2nd son of William Wilson, Manor House, Scarning, Norfolk and Elisa Turner, of Old

Greatham, Hampshire

Adjacent to the Old Church is a manor house, which is occupied by the L'Abri Fellowship, a Christian group.

Heslington Hall

The original Manor house was constructed in 1568 for Sir Thomas Eynns, the Secretary and Keeper of the Seal to the Council of the North; and his wife Elizabeth.

Historic houses in Virginia

1812, Rockingham County - early Greek-Revival manor house, former home of Willis Sharpe Kilmer

Howbery Park

Its main feature is an English manor house built in about 1850 by English Member of Parliament (MP) William Seymour Blackstone.

John Hollowbread

He ran the Manor House Inn at Bursledon from 1966 and later worked as bar manager of the New Forest Golf Club at Bramshaw.

Józef Brandt

Brandt's 19th century manor house in Orońsko together with surrounding park serves today as the Centre of Polish Sculpture.

Karin Michaëlis

In her youth Michaëlis was a private teacher for a few years, partly in Læsø and partly in a manor house north of Randers.

Lasówki

An eclectic villa (rather a hunting manor house), dating from around 1880-1890s, has been preserved.

Lesley Waters

With Tim coming from Devon and Waters' love of Thomas Hardy’s novels, they bought a 16th-century manor house in Evershot, Dorset from punk singer and actress Toyah Willcox and her husband Robert Fripp.

Living with the Future

"The Old Zoo", Lancashire - a large "modern country manor house" with separate children's/visitor's block, composed of many different angular forms and clad with thatched walls (architect: Farjadi Architects and owner)

Marsilly, Charente-Maritime

Between 1932 and 1936, the well-known writer Georges Simenon and his wife Régine lived at La Richardière, a 16th-century manor house in Marsilly.

Mazovia

Historical monuments elsewhere include the manor house in Żelazowa Wola where composer Frédéric Chopin was born and that today contains the Chopin Museum.

Minley Manor

The current manor house was built in the French style by Henry Clutton between 1858 and 1860 for Raikes Currie, a partner in Glyn Mills' Bank.

Minster Lovell

There is a legend that in 1708 the skeletal remains of Lord Lovell were discovered in a secret chamber in the manor house.

Nateby, Cumbria

A little over half a mile to the south-west, Wharton Hall, Wharton is a medieval fortified manor house, partly ruined and partly in use as a farmhouse.

Nunwell House

His son and successor, Sir William Oglander died in 1609, and his son Sir John Oglander writes of the manor-house of West Nunwell that it was 'now altogether dilapidated, but before it was consumed by fire in Henry VI's time was a goodly house and a great village of fifty houses belonging to it.'

Nütschau Priory

Occupying the former Nütschau manor house (Herrenhaus Nütschau), built in 1577-79 by Heinrich Rantzau, this community originated after World War II as a refuge for displaced persons, particularly Catholics from the former German territories.

Ockford Ridge

There was a Large manor House called Ockfordwood house which was built in the 1870s by Thomas Cooper.

Odell Castle

A new manor house was built on the site in 1962, and is currently owned by Baron Luke of Pavenham.

Peter Vanlore

He built and lived in a mansion at Calcot Park, which replaced the original manor house of Tilehurst.

Plush, Dorset

Plush consists of a few thatched cottages, a public house, a Regency manor house and a small church dedicated to St John the Baptist; the church was designed in 1848 by Benjamin Ferrey, a Gothic Revival architect and close friend of Pugin.

Pyrton

Standhill had been a hamlet with a manor house, but in the 14th century it was depopulated in the Black Death.

Quaker Manor House

During the encampment, the Quaker Manor House served as the headquarters for Washington's Surgeon General, John Cochran.

Ringwood State Park

During the American Revolution, Robert Erskine managed ironmaking operations from Ringwood, and became George Washington's first geographer and Surveyor-General, producing maps for the Continental army; Washington visited the Manor House several times.

Robert Hesketh

He succeeded his father in 1588, inheriting Martholme, the mediaeval Manor House near Great Harwood, as well as other property at Rufford, Holmes and Holmeswood.

Robert Livingston Gerry, Sr.

The Aknusti manor house was designed by architectural firm of Walker & Gillette with landscaping by the fame Olmsted Brothers firm.

Samarès Manor

The manor house is a H-plan building with a number of Tudor arched windows on the ground floor.

Snowshill

The manor house contains an unusual collection of furniture, musical instruments, craft tools, toys, clocks, bicycles and armour, all collected by architect and craftsman Charles Paget Wade between 1900 and 1951.

Starborough Castle

The first Starborough Castle was the manor house of Reginald de Cobham, 1st Baron Cobham, and 1st Lord Cobham of Sterborough, built in what was then the historic county of Surrey.

Sutton Court

Sutton Court is a large English house remodelled by Thomas Henry Wyatt in the 1850s from a manor house built in the 15th and 16th centuries around a 14th-century fortified tower.

Terry Pratchett: Choosing to Die

The film was shot in several locations around the United Kingdom, including Terry Pratchett's manor house near Salisbury, Wiltshire.

Tincleton

The parish manor house, Clyffe House, was rebuilt in the Tudor style in 1842 by Benjamin Ferrey.

Tom Blofeld

The author of three books for children, A Boggle at Bewilderwood (available also in a poetic version), The Bewilderbats, and A Bewildermuddle, Blofeld also runs his family's country estate, Hoveton, located in the village of the same name, and lives in Hoveton House, the manor house of the estate.

Tom Dascombe

Tom's biggest successes at Manor House Stables came in 2011 at Royal Ascot when Rhythm Of Light and Brown Panther (who later finished second in the 2011 St. Leger Stakes) won the Sandringham Listed Handicap and the King George V Handicap Stakes on consecutive days and in 2012 when Ceiling Kitty won the Group 2 Queen Mary Stakes at Royal Ascot.

Townhill Park House

Townhill Park House is a Grade II listed former manor house between the neighbouring housing estates of Townhill Park in Southampton and Chartwell Green in Eastleigh.

Vácrátót

Next to the large estate and the manor-house, the lands of the farmers of Vácrátót further continued to break up into smaller plots: in 1941, only seventy-five percent of its total population could earn a living from agriculture, fifteen percent of them found jobs outside the village – mainly in the industrial plants of Vác and Újpest.

Young Sherlock: The Mystery of the Manor House

Until Dr. Watson listened to the dictaphone cylinders Sherlock recorded in his retirement, not even he knew "The Mystery of Manor House."