Physical Legacies

In the Adam family from 1733 (when it was built). Charles Adam succeeded to Blair Adam in...

For the building's history and copies of plans see the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland website. (Link...

The image is of the house before 1887 (when it was susbtantially extended because the family felt it was "too small"). From Sir Claud Hagart-Alexander's account of The Alexander Family of...

The house was built in 1760 for the Whitefoord family, possibly to designs by William Adam (1689-1748). Bought by Claud Alexander in 1776. Subsequent modifications included the adding of the frontage...

'The residence of John Proctor Anderdon, Esq., formerly an eminent West India merchant'.  'The situation is upon the south-western verge of the New Forest [probably Bransgrove, now...

Remodelled 1816 according to J.N.Brewer p....

For a description of the building (Grade II listed since...

Mansion built 1786-94 by John White the elder, probably for Andrew Arcedeckne; enlarged 1834-5 by Decimus...

The photograph was taken c. 1867 by Winchester photographer William Savage (1817-87) and is found in an album of his work. From the Winchester Museums Collection Object number:...

Built on the site of a grange of Hyde Abbey after the dissolution of the monasteries; purchased with the manor of Micheldever in 1546 by Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton. The last...

Rebuilding started by John Gardner Kemeys c. 1795 and completed by his son-in-law Colthurst Bateman c. 1830.  Sold 1847. Burnt down 1905...

Built by Robert Berkeley the elder from...

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Re-built for Sir Christopher Bethell Codrington c. 1798-1817 by James. Capability Brown gardens. In the family until the 1980s. (Now owned by James Dyson.) Dates of occupation by...

Survey of London Vol. 29 & 30 Part 1 (1960) pp. 154-159 shows the purchase of the land...

 Late 17thC house now a...

Built by James Wallis, Bristol cloth and tobacco merchant c. 1700.  Modified by A. C. Boode after...

Country estate with manor...

For a 2009 photograph of the building see...

Braikenridge was the largest single donor in the building of the church, which was consecrated in 1839. (Sheena Stoddard, Mr Braikenridge's Brislington (Bristol, City of Bristol Museum...

Victorian classicist country (manor) house. The photograph (current, 2010) is from the Foxhills Hotel website:...

The house and estate appeared to have been owned through a series of trusts, Briscoe having inherited it by a marriage settlement on marrying Anna Maria Mawbey, 24 September 1819. "By his...

A gabled stucco house originally of two storeys, six bays wide with the windows arranged in pairs. The house extended c 1745 and remodelled in the Italianate style by Henry Kendall in 1846/7....

1673: House probably built by John Hooker (c1630-1674) Briscoe's ownership of the house given simply as 1831-1840; exact dates are not...

Red brick Elizabethan built to a design of Thomas Johnson of...

Built c. 1834; the Old Hall was truncated in 1836 after remodelling in 1809-1815. Old Hall let to Manchester emrchants in 19thC.  Main block of New Hall burnt down 1975: building is now...

Destroyed in the blitz, March...

In the early 1800s, William Burnett incorporated the old Coble Inn into a new mansion house which he named Banchory...

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Augustinian Priory founded c. 1135; manor house added by the Fenwick family, late C16th. Bought by Ward Cadogan c. 1825, inherited by William Hodgson Cadogan and restored by Cadogan Hodgson...

Built 1803 by Robert Nutter Campbell; demolished c....

Late Victorian...

Built by John Jervis Carnegie on his Fair Oak estate, which he bought c. 1850. Now the Southdowns Country Hotel...

Neo-classical country house...

Built 1802 for William Payne; remodelled 1817-1825. See David Lambert, 'The prospect of trade: the merchant gardeners of Bristol in the second half of the 18thC' pp. 123-145 in Michael Conan...

A Jacobean red-brick mansion built in 1613 for Sir Walter Chetwynd. Damaged by fire and re-built in the early 19th century by John Nash for the 2nd Earl Talbot. In 1960 the estate was broken up and...

"In 1963, Hyde Hall and the surrounding 600 acres were purchased by the state, and became Glimmerglass State Park. When plans were made to demolish the mansion, the Friends of Hyde Hall formed to...

Built 1816 for William (Hilton) Cooke (1787-1829), the father of William Hilton Cooke...

William Matthew Coulthurst built a church at Surbiton in 1874 at a cost of £19,000 in memory of his sister Hannah...

Georgian...

Built early 1790s for James Swan, a Liverpool tea dealer who died 1829, after which the house was sold; Luke Thomas Crossley was in residence at the time of the 1841...

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Leasowe Castle built in 1593 by Ferdinando, the 5th Earl of Derby. 1802 bought by Mrs Boode, whose daughter, Mary Anne, married Edward Cust who took possession in 1821. The castle...

Queen Anne country...

Built 1704-1708 by John Buxton: sold to Col. William Windham in the 1720s. The heading of the BBC Norfolk article on the house, 'Earsham Hall built on slavery', is not substantiated by the text:...

"The lavishly decorated Palladian villa and exquisite, tranquil landscape garden – featuring temples, lake and streams – were created by the infamous 2nd Baronet, Sir Francis Dashwood,...

Palladian villa built in the early C18th. Widely considered to be one of the finest extant English example of Palladian...