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The Garden House is an open garden located in Buckland Monachorum, Devon, England. The first house built in 1305 was intended to be a home for the vicars of the civil parish. The gardens are now open to the public and are home to a number of historical features, including the ruins of the old vicarage, a 14th-century barn, and a 17th-century ...
Tavistock (/ ˈ t æ v ɪ s t ɒ k / TAV-iss-tok) is an ancient stannary and market town and civil parish in the West Devon district, in the county of Devon, England. It is situated on the River Tavy , from which its name derives.
Endsleigh Cottage (now "Endsleigh House") is a country house near Milton Abbot, about 6 miles NW of Tavistock, Devon in England. It is a Grade I listed building. The gardens are Grade I listed in the National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. [1] The house was built in the early 19th century for the Duke of Bedford. Today, it is a hotel.
This list of works by Edwin Lutyens provides brief details of some of the houses, gardens, public buildings and memorials designed by Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens (1869–1944). Lutyens was a British architect known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era.
Garden house may refer to: a summer house or small building in a garden; a house built under the provision of special legislation (usu. in Scandinavia), for instance a Friggebod; The Garden House, an open garden near Buckland Monachorum, Devon, UK; Garden House School, in Chelsea, London, England
Lewtrenchard is a village and civil parish in the West Devon district, in the county of Devon, England. Most of the larger village of Lewdown is in the parish. In the Domesday Book of 1086, a manor of Lew is recorded in this area and two rivers have the same name: see River Lew. Trenchard comes from the lords of the manor in the 13th century.
At Tavistock House Dickens wrote Bleak House, Hard Times, Little Dorrit and A Tale of Two Cities. He also put on amateur theatricals there which are described in John Forster's Life of Charles Dickens. [1] [2] Later, it was the home of William and Georgina Weldon, whose lodger was the French composer Charles Gounod, who composed part of his ...
The manor of Middeltone was donated at some time before the Norman Conquest of 1066 (according to the Devon historian Risdon (d. 1640) by "a knight that dwelt in Daversweek" [1]) to Tavistock Abbey, as is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, [2] and, together with most of the Abbey's other extensive possessions, was acquired following the Dissolution of the Monasteries by John Russell, 1st ...