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2 unusual facts about country house


Creskeld Hall

Creskeld Hall is a grade II listed Country House located in Arthington, near Bramhope, West Yorkshire, England.

Shirehorses

Other parodies include "I Want a Roll with It" (spoofing "Roll with It" by Oasis), "Feel Like Shite" ("Alright" by Supergrass), and "Country Spouse" ("Country House" by Blur).


Anmer Hall

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

Arthur Macnamara

His family was wealthy; the Macnamara family owned many buildings, including a castle at Llangoed, Wales, a country house called Caddington Hall in Hertfordshire, and an estate at Eaton Bray in Bedfordshire.

Barking Hall

Barking Hall is a lost country house in Suffolk, England.

Birdbrook

Nearby Moyns Park, a Grade I listed Elizabethan country house, is said to have been where Ian Fleming put the finishing touches on his novel From Russia, with Love.

Castle Bernard railway station

The station opened on 12 June 1866 as a private station for The 3rd Earl of Bandon who lived at Castle Bernard, a country house near Bandon.

Curt DiCamillo

He is a specialist on the British country house and has taught classes on British culture, art, and architecture at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Decimus Burton

Bentham Hill House, Southborough, Kent (1830–2) a small country house in Deveyesque mode for Alexandre Pott, now converted into flats

Ema Gordon Klabin Cultural Foundation

Some time later, she would order the construction of a winter country house in Campos do Jordão, when there was no space left to hold her frequent acquisitions.

Farley Hall

Farley Hall is a Grade I listed country house in the village of Farley Hill in Berkshire.

Fonthill Abbey

Fonthill Abbey — also known as Beckford's Folly — was a large Gothic revival country house built around the turn of the 18th century at Fonthill Gifford in Wiltshire, England, at the direction of William Thomas Beckford and architect James Wyatt.

Foots Cray Place

Foots Cray Place was one of the four country houses built in England in 18th century to a design inspired by Palladio's Villa Capra near Vicenza.

Forest Way

Forest Way provides access to Weir Wood Reservoir with its plentiful bird life and sailing and to Standen country house designed by Philip Webb which contains fine examples of William Morris designs.

Hurdsfield House

Hurdsfield House is a former country house, now surrounded by housing, in the town of Macclesfield, Cheshire, England.

Lobnya

Within two kilometers from Marfino is the manor of Nikolskoye-Prozorovskoye, which contains a Neo-Baroque country house of Field Marshal Prozorovsky and a Neoclassical church of St. Nicholas, built in the 1790s.

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.

New Shute House

New Shute House is a late Palladian country house built between 1785 and 1789 by Sir John de la Pole, 6th Baronet (1757–1799) and is situated within the grounds of Old Shute House, in the parish of Shute, near Axminster, East Devon.

North Stoneham Park

North Stoneham Park, also known as Stoneham Park, was a landscaped parkland and country house of the same name, north of Southampton at North Stoneham, Hampshire.

Odney

This fine mid-18th century country house was once rented by Colonel Francis Ricardo, the first car owner in Cookham, who was High Sheriff of Berkshire in the early 1900s and supposedly the inspiration for Kenneth Grahame's Toad, in the Wind in the Willows.

Renishaw, Derbyshire

To the north west of the village is Renishaw Hall, a country house belonging to the Sitwell family, who were owners of the local iron foundry before it was nationalised.

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.

Trawsgoed

Trawsgoed Mansion is a 17th-century country house, also known as Crosswood Park, formerly the seat of the Earl of Lisburne.

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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Ana María de Huarte y Muñiz

Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany allowed the Imperial family to stay in Livorno, where they rented a small country house.

Ashdown House

Ashdown House, East Sussex, an 18th-century country house in Forest Row, England, now a school

Ashdown House, England

Ashdown House, East Sussex, an 18th-century country house in Forest Row, England

British Institute of Technology and E-commerce

In 2011 BITE opened a residential executive campus at Shrubland Hall, a large country house 6 miles from Ipswich in Suffolk.

Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police

Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police is a 1939 American country house murder mystery film directed by James Patrick Hogan, based on the H. C. McNeile novel Temple Tower.

Burnham Market

Burnham Westgate Hall is a Grade II* listed Georgian country house, built 1783-1785 by Sir John Soane, for Thomas Pitt, 1st Baron Camelford.

Candide ou l'optimisme au XXe siècle

Finally, back in France, he retires to a country house with Cunégonde, Pangloss, and a mysterious lady who saved him from a firing squad, and settles down to write his memoirs.

Christleton

Christleton Old Hall is a former country house in the village and a Grade II* listed building.

Cogshall

Cogshall Hall, a country house near the village of Comberbach, Cheshire, England

Colwall

Near to the station is the mock Georgian, country house style Colwall Park Hotel, purpose built in 1905 to serve the now defunct Colwall Horse Racecourse.

Exton, Rutland

Barnsdale was a large country house, built in 1890 as a hunting lodge for Earl Fitzwilliam by architect E. J. May.

Fryken

The football trainer Sven-Göran Eriksson owns a country house at the south-east side of Upper Fryken.

Henry Plumer McIlhenny

During his lifetime his collections of French masterpieces, 18th and 19th century silver, furniture and other decorative arts were housed in both his Rittenhouse Square townhouse and at Glenveagh Castle, his country house in County Donegal, part of the Province of Ulster in Ireland.

Holmwood, Redditch

Holmwood House in Redditch, Worcestershire, is a country house built for Canon Horace Newton of Glencripesdale Estate and Barrells Hall in 1893 by the famed Victorian architect Temple Lushington Moore, who was a vague relative of the Newton family.

Honingham Hall

Honingham Hall was a large country house at Honingham in Norfolk.

Jean-François Regnard

After inheriting his mother's considerable fortune in 1693, he devoted the time divided between his hôtel in Paris and his country house, the château of Grillon, near Dourdan, to writing comedies in verse for the Comédie française, twenty-three in total, the best of them being Le Joueur ("The Gamester", 1696), Le Distrait (1697), Les Menechmes and his masterwork, Le Légataire universelle ("The residuary legatee", 1706), following closely in the steps of Molière.

John Cleve Green

His town house was in Washington Square in New York City and his large country house with much land at New Brighton on Staten Island.

Lompico, California

Jerry Garcia's family had a country house in Lompico, which he visited while he was young.

Luci Pollreis

The young Viennese woman hid two Jewish women and a Jew in her apartment in Vienna, on her farm and in a country house in Ramsau near Hainfeld three years from 1942.

Lynda Lee-Potter

It dispensed advice, such as what to take your hostess at country house weekends: "Under no circumstances take a poinsettia, which is the plant equivalent of a bottle of Blue Nun."

Manacor

The vimer (Salix viminalis) is a willow located in S'Hort des Correu, a country house in the outskirts of the town of Manacor.

Marcus Binney

The Country House: To Be or Not to Be (1982) with Kit Martin, Save Britain's Heritage, ISBN 0-905978-12-9, ISBN 978-0-905978-12-3.

Markenfield Hall

Markenfield Hall is an early 14th-century moated country house three miles (5 km) south of Ripon, North Yorkshire.

May Tennant

She and her husband bought and rebuilt a country house, Great Maytham, at Rolvenden, Kent, a property whose old walled garden had earlier been the inspiration for The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

Milltown of Rothiemay

Rothiemay Castle, partly dating from the 15th century, was rebuilt as a baronial country house in 1788, by James Duff, 2nd Earl Fife.

Misalliance

Misalliance takes place entirely on a single Saturday afternoon in the conservatory of a large country house in Hindhead, Surrey in Edwardian era England.

Napoleon Blown-Aparte

The music cue during the scene at the Commissioner's country house is Camille Saint-Saëns's "The Carnival of the Animals".

Nigel Farrell

However he will primarily be remembered for a 50-programme Radio 4 series called The Village, three series of 'Country House' set at Woburn Abbey, 'An Island Parish', which evolved from 'A Country Parish', launched in 2001 on BBC Two and a series on Channel 4 called 'A Place In France'.

North Stoke, Oxfordshire

Rock vocalist Ian Gillan, formerly of Deep Purple, used to live in the country house that is now the Springs Hotel.

Oliver St John

He retired to his country house in Northamptonshire till 1662, when he left England and went to Basel, Switzerland and afterwards to Augsburg, Germany.

Oregon Hill

In 1758, William Byrd III built his country house Belvidere on this hill, with views of the James River as well as Church Hill and Shockoe Hill.

Orford Hall, Warrington

Orford Hall, now demolished, was a 17th-century country house built in an estate which is now a public park (Orford Park) in Orford, Warrington, England.

Parker's Back

The story starts with Parker and his Biblically-named wife, Sarah Ruth, on the front porch in of their country house.

Reinhardsbrunn

In 1827 Duke Ernst I of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, who had inherited the site, built a country house here - Schloss Reinhardsbrunn - in the English style, surrounded by a pleasure garden.

Rushbury

Wilderhope Manor, a 16th-century country house restored in 1936 and now owned by the National Trust, is used as a Youth Hostel.

Sopwell House

Though mention of buildings on the site goes back to 1604, it was not developed as a country house until the master mason Edward Strong built his home here in the 18th century.

St Catherine's Court

After her divorce from Flynn and marriage to American film producer James Keach, Seymour rented the manor as a film set, recording studio and latterly country house estate/hotel for corporate events and weddings.

Stannington, Sheffield

Significant buildings in the area include the Christ Church parish church on Church Street; the Unitarian chapel, Underbank Chapel; and the country house, Revell Grange; all of which are Grade II listed structures.

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).

The Monkey and the Tiger

The second story, called "The Night of the Tiger", takes place a decade later when Judge Dee is returning to the capital at Chang'an when bandits force Judge Dee to take cover in an isolated country house.

Thedden

Thedden Grange is a large country house, the area originally being part of the Bentworth Hall estate.

Thicket Priory

The building that was used by the community until 2009 was erected as a country house between 1844 and 1847, and was sold by Lt Col Sir John Dunnington-Jefferson in 1955 to the Carmelite Sisters of Exmouth.

Thornton Watlass Hall

Thornton Watlass Hall is a large Grade I listed Georgian country house in Thornton Watlass, North Yorkshire, England, some 3 miles (5 km) north of Masham.

Wedgwood Memorial College

The Barlaston estate was acquired by Wedgwood in the 1930s, and the college opened in February 1945 in Barlaston Hall, a country house.

Wendover

The eminent physician Sir Thomas Barlow, who attended Queen Victoria on her deathbed, owned Boswells (a large country house to the South of Wendover) until his death in 1945 and the actor John Junkin lived in Wendover until his death in 2006.

Whirlow

James Fawcett, joint owner of the Sheffield silversmiths James Dixon & Sons built Whirlow Court, a small country house in the early 1880s.

Wookey Hole

Glencot House is a Grade II listed country house dating from 1887, by Ernest George and Harold Peto, for W. S. Hodgkinson.

Wycombe by-election, 1914

The local Liberals did have a willing candidate from within their membership in Tonman Mosley who had bought the country house of Bangors Park, Iver, in the constituency.