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This is a list of historic houses in the Republic of Ireland which serves as a link page for any stately home or historic house in Ireland. County Carlow [ edit ]
Petworth House is a late 17th-century Grade I listed country house in the parish of Petworth, West Sussex, England. It was built in 1688 by Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, and altered in the 1870s to the design of the architect Anthony Salvin. [2] It contains intricate wood-carvings by Grinling Gibbons (d. 1721). It is the manor house of ...
Pitshill is a Grade II* listed house built in the neoclassical style and is located within the Parish of Tillington a couple of miles west of Petworth. Begun by William Mitford in 1760 on the site of an earlier house it was completed by his son, also William, in 1794. [1] It is considered to be one of the most important country houses in West ...
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.
The term big house (Irish: teach mór) refers to the country houses, mansions, or estate houses of the historical landed class in Ireland. The houses formed the symbolic focal point of the landed Anglo-Irish political dominance of Ireland from the late 16th century, and many were destroyed or attacked during the Irish revolutionary period .
Orchard Wyndham, west front Orchard Wyndham, south front Painting of Orchard Wyndham, 18th century English School, National Trust, collection of Petworth House.Northward beyond the house is the town of Watchet and its harbour (with pier built by Sir William Wyndham, 3rd Baronet (1687–1740)), historically part of the estate, on the Bristol Channel
Gilded Age mansions were lavish houses built between 1870 and the early 20th century by some of the richest people in the United States. These estates were raised by the nation's industrial, financial and commercial elite, who amassed great fortunes in era of expansion of the tobacco, railroad, steel, and oil industries coinciding with a lack ...
The building was commissioned to replace a timber framed market house which dated back at least to the 15th century. By the late 18th century, the old building had become dilapidated and the lord of the manor, George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont, whose seat was at Petworth House, decided to demolish the old building and replace it with a new structure on the same site. [2]