Kiddington Hall was built in 1673 by Sir Henry Browne, whose family lived there for generations. In 1740, Sir Henry's grandson hired Capability Brown to design the park and gardens and carve out a lake from the...
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Feb 27th, 2011
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Norwood House, Beverley
Norwood House was built in the late 1750s by Jonathan Midgley, a successful lawyer and three times Mayor of Beverley, in East Yorkshire. Originally erected beside the Beverley Assembly Rooms, the centre of the...
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Feb 7th, 2011
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Patrick |
Private Houses | Residences |
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St Martin’s Lane
A wonderful surprise was had by the new owners of the oldest surviving house in St Martin's Lane, near London's Trafalgar Square. For when they began work on the panelled ceiling of the front room on the first...
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Feb 6th, 2011
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Patrick |
Private Houses | Residences |
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Lichfield House, 15 St James’s Square
A house was built on the site by 1676. In April 1748 it was bought by Admiral Lord Anson from the Earl of Clarendon (who went on to purchase The Grove). In November 1751 Matthew Brettingham, senior, surveyed the...
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Jan 28th, 2011
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Patrick |
Conservation | Private Houses |
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Raby Castle
Raby Castle is situated near Staindrop in County Durham and is one of the largest inhabited castles in England. The Grade I listed building has opulent eighteenth and nineteenth century interiors inside a largely...
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Jan 26th, 2011
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Patrick |
Private Houses |
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Maids of Honour Row, Richmond
Maids of Honour Row is ‘an excellent, entirely uniform, terrace’ of four three story houses each five windows wide with a parapet hiding the roof. They have distinctive pink “rubbed” brick dressings to the...
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Jan 23rd, 2011
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Patrick |
Private Houses | Residences |
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Great Fulford
Great Fulford has been the home of the Fulford family for over 800 years. The history of England is reflected in the story of the family. The careful building up of their fortunes, largely as a result of...
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Jan 14th, 2011
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Patrick |
Palaces |
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Blenheim Palace
Blenheim Palace © Pete Seaward Photography Blenheim Palace in Woodstock, Oxfordshire is the only palace in England outside those in either royal or episcopal use. ‘Palace’ is a coincidence pertaining to the...
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Jan 11th, 2011
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Palaces |
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Kensington Palace Orangery
The Orangery at Kensington Palace was designed for Queen Anne by Hawksmoor in 1704. The level of decoration of the interior, including carved detail by Grinling Gibbons, reflects its intended use, not just as a...
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Dec 29th, 2010
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Private Houses |
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13 Bedford Row, Bloomsbury
Bedford Row, which lies between Red Lion Street and Gray's Inn, is a broad thoroughfare of the early eighteenth century. It does not derive its name, as might be imagined, from the Russell family, but from the town...
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