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Virginia House is a former 16th-entury English manor house blending three romantic English Tudor designs. In 1925, it was relocated to Richmond, Virginia from main sections dating from the 1620 remodeling of a priory in Warwickshire, England and reconstructed on a hillside overlooking the James River in Windsor Farms .
This is intended to be as full a list as possible of country houses, castles, palaces, other stately homes, and manor houses in the United Kingdom and the Channel Islands; any architecturally notable building which has served as a residence for a significant family or a notable figure in history.
Forty Hall is a manor house of the 1620s in Forty Hill in Enfield, north London. The house, a Grade I listed building , is today used as a museum by the London Borough of Enfield . Within the grounds is the site of the former Tudor Elsyng Palace .
A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor in Europe. The house formed the administrative centre of a manor in the European feudal system; within its great hall were held the lord's manorial courts, communal meals with manorial tenants and great banquets.
Bromwich Hall - The Manor House Museum is an important, Grade I listed, medieval domestic building (a hall house) built by Richard de Marnham around 1270 as the centre of his agricultural estate in West Bromwich. [5] [1] [2] [4] [3] Only the Great Hall survives of the original complex of living quarters, agricultural barns, sheds and ponds ...
Belton House is an English country house in Lincolnshire. An English country house is a large house or mansion in the English countryside. Such houses were often owned by individuals who also owned a town house. This allowed them to spend time in the country and in the city—hence, for these people, the term distinguished between town and country.
Medieval house, North Cray (dismantled in 1965; reconstructed at the Weald and Downland Living Museum in West Sussex in 1984). [47] Medieval house, Sole Street (dismantled in 1970; reconstructed at the Weald and Downland Living Museum in West Sussex in 1991 and 2016). [48] The Old Bakery, Hamstreet. [49] [50] Pattyndenne Manor, Goudhurst. [51]
Pitzhanger Manor is an English country house famous as the home of neoclassical architect, Sir John Soane.Built between 1800 and 1804 in what is now Walpole Park Ealing, to the west of London), the Regency Manor is a rare and spectacular example of a building designed, built and lived in by Sir John Soane himself.