Country house
Blair Adam
description → In the Adam family from 1733 (when it was built). Charles Adam succeeded to Blair Adam in...
notes → For the building's history and copies of plans see the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland website. (Link...
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Berrymead Priory [Purchased]
description → Akers purchased Berrymead Priory in 1807 from the trustees of Thomas Clutton, according to the Victoria County History Middlesex Vol. 7 (1982) pp. 16-23 [<a... |
Estate
Ballochmyle House and Estate [Purchased]
description → The image is of the house before 1887 (when it was substantially extended because the family felt it was "too small").
From Sir Claud Hagart-Alexander's account of The Alexander Family of...
notes → 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...
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Land
Dunnottar Woods [Built]
description → Woods laid out and planted by Alexander Allardyce on the estate he purchased, on which he also built 'a substantial mansion', since...
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Tomb or Grave
Memorial to Ann Baxter [Built]
description → Memorial designed by John Bacon erected in St Nicholas Kirk Aberdeen by Alexander Allardyce in 1787 for his first wife, Ann...
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Enham House or Place
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Henlade House
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Farley Hall
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Beech House [Built]
description → '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 Bransgore, ]. 'A...
notes → Remodelled 1816 according to James Norris Brewer Introduction to the original delineations, topographical, historical and descriptive intituled The Beauties of England and Wales (1818) p....
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Public building
Hawick Museum [Purchased]
description → Wilton Lodge was purchased in 1805 by James Anderson, an East India man, around the time of his marriage to Catherine Grant. The house was subsequently expanded by the couple's daughter and her...
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Country house
Glevering Hall
description → Mansion built 1786-94 by John White the elder, for Chaloner Arcedeckne; enlarged 1834-5 for Andrew Arcedeckne by Decimus Burton.
The Orangery at Glevering Hall was designed by Decimus Burton and...
notes → For a description of the building (Grade II* listed since 1951):
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Glevering Hall [Built]
description → Country house, built for Chaloner Arecdeckne to designs by John White [attributed dates vary, but c. 1794]. Modified for Andrew Arcedckne (q.v.) by Decimus Burton 1834-1835....
notes → British Listed Buildings suggests it was built for Andrew Arcedeckne c.1794, but this cannot be either Andrew Arcedeckne (d. 1763) or Andrew Arcedeckne (b. 1780). Other sources, including Wilson and...
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Public Utility
Ashton Park, West Kirby [Built]
description → Ashton Park in West Kirby was reportedly developed on land leased from Emma Mary Ashton, a spinster of Kensington, the daughter of Ralph Ashton and the grand-daughter of Henry Ashton who had 'made...
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Church
Holy Trinity Church, Hulme [Built]
description → Holy Trinity Church, Hulme, funded with £18,000 from Eleonora Atherton in 1841, completed in...
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Church
St Paul's Church, Kersal [Built]
description → St Paul's Church Kersal, built 1851/2 for Col. William Clowes and Miss Atherton of Kersal...
notes → Paul Hindle, Salford Through Time...
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Ashcott House
description → Ashcott House, 18th country house in Somerset, known to have been modified in the early 19thC, probably but not certainly by John Atkins (who was of Ashcott House at his death in 1840) or members of...
notes → ...
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Church
Halstead Church
description → Memorial in Halstead Churchyard describes him as 'founder of this cemetery'.
'He rebuilt the church at Halstead on a new site across the road from, and a little further north than, its...
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Monument
Memorial to Joseph Baker, by John Hickey [Built]
description → Monumental memorial to her husband Joseph Baker of the East India Co. (died 1789) in Chichester Cathedral....
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Country house
Lypiatt Park [Purchased]
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Public building
Bakers Quay [Built]
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Town house
The Grange [Built]
description → House on Clapham Common West Side, built by Christopher Baldwin c....
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Castlehill [Built]
description → New mansions house at Castlehill Ayr built by Patrick Ballantine c. 104. Demolished in the 1960s. The site is now a public...
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Kingston lacy
notes → "commissioned his friend Charles Barry to encase the red brick hall in stone, and enlarge his other property Soughton Hall. Barry remodelled Kingston Lacy between 1835 and 1838. The work involved...
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Castle
Corfe Castle
notes → Inherited from his father in...
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Stratton Park [Purchased]
description → 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:...
notes → 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...
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Plaque
Tablet to Thomas Barnes [Built]
description → Tablet to Thomas Barnes (d. 14/11/1849 aged 67) and Catherine his wife (d. 24/10/1856 aged 58) in the Lady Chapel of the parish church of SS Peter and Paul, Uppingham, Rutland, built at the...
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Urban Development
New Milverton [Built]
description → Comber House (built in 1824 and sold in 1827 for £6000); Milverton Lodge (built in 1825 and sold in 1839), Bertie Villa (built in 1827 and used as security for several mortgages as well as a family...
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Coach House, Carlton Hall, Richmond, Yorkshire [Built]
description → 'Coach-house and stables, now farm buildings and cottage. Probably early C19, for S B Moulton Barrett Esq, reusing some C18 fragments.'. The same source, referencing White's 1840 directory, suggests...
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Garbrand Hall, Ewell, Surrey [Purchased]
description → Country house, purchased by Thomas Hercey Barritt in 1795 and renamed Garbrand Hall, apparently after his Jamaica estate. Barritt extended and modified the house and gardens, and built the Dog Gate,...
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Country house
Corsley House [Built]
description → Country house, rebuilt c. 1820 for Nathaniel Barton. The History of Parliament says 'He had Corsley House 'ostentatiously rebuilt c....
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Estate
Bertholey House [Built]
notes → Rebuilding started by John Gardner Kemeys c. 1795 and completed by his son-in-law Colthurst Bateman c. 1830. Sold 1847. Burnt down 1905...
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South Stoneham House [Purchased]
description → A helpful account of the house is in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Stoneham_House"...
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Eastwick Park House [Purchased]
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Wentworth House [Purchased]
description → Mid 18thC remodelling or rebuilding of an early 17thC...
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Plaque
Commemoration of Nelson Bean
description → Street jewellery in the form of a pavement plaque to Nelson...
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Country house
Penders or Ashtead Lodge [Built]
description → Reportedly built by Francis Beckford c. 1765. 'When Francis Beckford, the first from the Jamaican branch, came to Ashtead on the death in 1763 of Dorothea, the widow of Thomas, a new mansion was...
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Stepleton House [Purchased]
description → Stepleton House, country house in Dorset purchased in 1745 and remodelled by Julines Beckford, who landscaped the grounds and formed a pleasure ground....
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Estate
Offley Holes
description → Rose Backford added land to the existing Offley Holes estate in Hertfordshire in 1791. He had purchased it before 1781. He mortgaged the estate to Robert Curling c. 1795. Under the will of a later...
notes → See also...
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Fonthill [Built]
description → In 1744-45 William Beckford purchased Fonthill for £32,000 from Francis, 2nd Baron Cottington. Following a fire in 1755 Beckford built a new and substantial Palladian mansion on the site (which came...
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Fonthill / Fonthill Abbey [Built]
description → In 1744-45 William Beckford purchased Fonthill for £32,000 from Francis, 2nd Baron Cottington. Following a fire in 1755 Beckford built a new and substantial Palladian mansion on the site (which came...
notes → The remains of the Fonthill estate are now in private hands....
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Lutwyche Hall [Purchased]
description → Estate and house purchased in 1807 by the trustees of Moses Benson and held in the Benson family for more than a century, during which the house was remodelled with a Jacobean-style front by S....
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Spetchley Park [Built]
notes → Built by Robert Berkeley the elder from...
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Woolverstone Hall [Built]
description → Grade I Palladian house, built c. 1776 for William Berners by John Johnson. ...
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Urban Development
Berners Estate, Fitzrovia [Built]
description → Between 1758 and 1772, William Berners undertook systematic development of his estate in what is now Fitzrovia, after earlier piecemeal development, including Berners Street which survives. ...
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Country house
Dodington Park [Built]
description → Image from <a...
notes → Re-built for Sir Christopher Bethell Codrington c. 1798-1817 by James. Capability Brown gardens. In the family until the 1980s. (Subsequently owned by James Dyson.)
Dates of occupation by the...
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Killearn [Built]
description → Mansion house built c. 1814 by John Blackburn on the Killearn estate, and in the Blackburn family's ownership until...
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Dock
Millwall Dock [Built]
description → Dry dock, built by John Blackett c....
notes → ...
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Ankerwycke House [Built]
description → Early 19thC country house built by John Blagrove. See main text for more details....
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Estate
Blairquhan Castle [Built]
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Country house
Langham Hall, Langham [Purchased]
description → Grade II* country house; the Langham estate was purchased c. 1760 by Sir Patrick Blake 1st bart. ...
notes → The date of the house is given as 1756 in some on-line sources, including some which show Patrick Blake as building it. However, the British Listed Buildings entry shows it as early 18thC. ...
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