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The house has been much used as a film location, including: Libel (1959); several episodes of the BBC science-fiction television series Doctor Who, and for 30 years a Doctor Who Exhibition was hosted on the grounds, [5] with an event celebrating the series's 20th anniversary being held at the house at Easter 1983; the Indian Hindi film Mohabbatein (2000); [6] [7] and the BBC show How to ...
St Catherine's Court is a manor house in a secluded valley north of Bath, Somerset, England. It is a Grade I listed property. [1] [2] The gardens are Grade II* listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England. [3] The original house was a priory grange for the monks of Bath Abbey adjacent to the ...
In 2003, Saltford Manor was the winner of a contest sponsored by Country Life to find the "oldest continuously inhabited house in Britain". There were hundreds of entrants, many eliminated because they had been built as ecclesiastical buildings and only become available in the housing market after Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries .
The Gibbs family owned the house until the death in 2001 of George Gibbs (known as Richard). The house was acquired by the National Trust in June 2002 after a fund raising campaign to prevent it being sold to private interests and ensure it be opened to the public. It was opened to visitors for the first time just 10 weeks after the acquisition.
He put the house up for auction on 30 March 1950. [15] It was described as in excellent order, with panelling, Georgian mantels and find mahogany doors. There were three reception rooms and a large music room (38 ft × 18 ft), and the large entrance hall had a stone staircase leading up to nine bed and dressing rooms, with three modern bath rooms.
Highgrove House was built in 1796 to 1798 by John Paul Paul, and believed to have been designed by architect Anthony Keck.The estate itself came to the family through the marriage in 1771 of Josiah Paul Tippetts later Paul (his mother's family name, which he adopted under the terms of the will of his uncle, her brother) with Mary Clark, whose father Robert was the local squire.
Tyntesfield (TINTS-feeld) [2] is a Victorian Gothic Revival country house and estate near Wraxall, North Somerset, England.The house is a Grade I listed building named after the Tynte baronets, who had owned estates in the area since about 1500.
Kelston Park is an 18th-century country house in the village of Kelston, approximately 3 miles from Bath in North East Somerset, England.Altogether the house and gardens of Kelston Park cover an area of approximately 75 hectares (190 acres). [2]