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Wardour Castle or Old Wardour Castle is a ruined 14th-century castle at Wardour, on the boundaries of the civil parishes of Tisbury and Donhead St Andrew in the English county of Wiltshire, about 15 miles (24 km) west of Salisbury.
Location Historical Period Original airdate 46: 1 "A Muslim Port in Spain" Denia, Spain: Medieval, Islamic: 2 January 2000 () 47: 2 "The Mosaic at the Bottom of the Garden" Cirencester, Gloucestershire: Roman: 9 January 2000 () 48: 3 "One of the First Spitfires Lost in France" Wierre-Effroy, France: World War II: 16 January 2000 () 49: 4
The Orangery is joined to the house by a covered passage known as the Dark Passage. This was designed by Wyatt for Sir Thomas Legh in 1815 and is a Grade II listed building. [ 31 ] Further from the house, to the northeast of the orangery, are the stables ( 53°20′21″N 2°03′10″W / 53.33912°N 2.05283°W / 53.33912; -2.05283
Dyrham Park (/ ˈ d ɪ r əm /) is a baroque English country house in an ancient deer park near the village of Dyrham in South Gloucestershire, England.The house, with the attached orangery and stable block, is a Grade I listed building, while the park is Grade II* listed on the National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.
The castle was held directly by the Norman kings; its castellan was generally also the sheriff of Wiltshire. In 1075, the Council of London established Herman as the first bishop of Salisbury (Seriberiensis episcopus), [20] uniting his former sees of Sherborne and Ramsbury into a single diocese which covered the counties of Dorset, Wiltshire ...
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A curved orangery with a black and white stone floor adjoins the west of the house, to which it is directly accessed by glass doors. [3] The 1999 Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds edition of the Pevsner Architectural Guides, described the placing of the curved orangery in relation to St Mary's church as a "perfect example of Regency picturesque ...
Orangery and canal. The estate is centred on the two principal houses set either side of the Green: Frampton Court, a Palladian house of the early 1730s often attributed to the Bristol architect, John Strahan, [11] and Manor Farmhouse, of the mid-15th century with a contemporary wool barn [1] that was restored by the Cliffords.