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| x Abbotsford House |
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Abbotsford is a historic house in the region of the Scottish Borders in the south of Scotland, near Melrose, on the south bank of the River Tweed. It was formerly the residence of historical novelist and poet, Walter Scott. It is a Category A listed...
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| x Bletchley Park |
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Bletchley Park, also known as Station X, is an estate located in the town of Bletchley, in Buckinghamshire, England. Since 1967, Bletchley has been part of Milton Keynes.
During World War II, Bletchley Park was the site of the United Kingdom's main...
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| x Camp David |
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Naval Support Facility Thurmont, popularly known as Camp David, is a mountain based military camp in Frederick County, Maryland used as a country retreat and for high alert protection of the President of the United States and his guests.
First known...
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| x White House |
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The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., it was built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the late...
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| x Peckforton Castle |
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Peckforton Castle is a country house built in the style of a medieval castle. It stands in woodland at the north end of Peckforton Hills 1 mile (2 km) northwest of the village of Peckforton, Cheshire, England. It is a Grade I listed building.
The...
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| x Monticello |
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Monticello (pronounced /mɑntəˈtʃɛloʊ/), located in Charlottesville, Virginia, was the estate of Thomas Jefferson, the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence, third President of the United States, and founder of the...
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| x Chatsworth House |
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Chatsworth House is a large country house at Chatsworth, Derbyshire, England 3½ miles north east of Bakewell (GB Grid SK260700). It is the seat of the Dukes of Devonshire, and has been home to their family, the Cavendish family, since Bess of...
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| x Hatfield House |
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Hatfield House is a country house set in a large park, the Great Park, on the eastern side of the town of Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England. The present Jacobean house was built in 1611 by Robert Cecil, First Earl of Salisbury and Chief Minister to...
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| x Hever Castle |
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Hever Castle, in Kent, England (in the village of Hever), was the seat of the Boleyn, originally 'Bullen' family. It began as a country house, built in the 13th century and converted into a manor in 1462 by Geoffrey Boleyn, who served as Lord Mayor...
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| x Berkeley Plantation |
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Berkeley Plantation, one of the first great estates in America, comprises about 1,000 acres (4.0 km²) on the banks of the James River on State Route 5 in Charles City County, Virginia. Berkeley Plantation was originally called Berkeley Hundred and...
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| x Osborne House |
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Osborne House is a former royal residence in East Cowes, Isle of Wight, UK. The house was built between 1845 and 1851 for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert as a summer home and rural retreat.
Prince Albert designed the house himself in the style of...
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| x Graceland |
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Graceland is a large white-columned mansion and 13.8-acre (56,000 m) estate that was home to Elvis Presley in Memphis. It is located at 3734 Elvis Presley Boulevard in the vast Whitehaven community about twelve miles (19 km) from Downtown and less...
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| x Sheringham Park |
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Sheringham Park is a landscape park and gardens near the town of Sheringham, Norfolk, England. The park surrounds Sheringham Hall and has a grid reference of TG133416. The Hall is privately occupied, but Sheringham Park is in the care of the...
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| x Royal Pavilion |
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The Royal Pavilion is a former royal residence located in Brighton, England. It was built in the early 19th Century as a seaside retreat for the then Prince Regent. It is often referred to as the Brighton Pavilion. It is built in the Indo-Saracenic...
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| x Kedleston Hall |
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Kedleston Hall listen (help·info) is an English country house in Kedleston, Derbyshire, approximately four miles north-west of Derby, and is the seat of the Curzon family whose name originates in Notre-Dame-de-Courson in Normandy. Today it is a...
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| x Treasure Houses of England |
The Treasure Houses of England is a heritage consortium founded in the early 1970s by ten of the foremost stately homes in England still in private ownership, with the aim of marketing and promoting themselves as tourist venues.
There are now nine...
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| x Bisham Abbey |
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Bisham Abbey is a Grade I listed manor house at Bisham in the English county of Berkshire. The name is taken from the now lost monastery which once stood alongside. The abbey church proper, previously Bisham Priory, was the traditional resting place...
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| x Woodstock Palace |
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Woodstock Palace was a royal residence in the English town of Woodstock, Oxfordshire. The title of "palace" was first used to refer to it during the twelfth century, when it was favoured by King Henry I of England. In about 1120, he created a zoo in...
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| x Castle Howard |
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Castle Howard is a stately home in North Yorkshire, England, 15 miles (24 km) north of York. One of the grandest private residences in Britain, most of it was built between 1699 and 1712 for the 3rd Earl of Carlisle, to a design by Sir John Vanbrugh...
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| x Arundel Castle |
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Arundel Castle in Arundel, West Sussex, England is a restored medieval castle. The castle dates from the reign of Edward the Confessor (r. 1042–1066) and was completed by Roger de Montgomery, who became the first to hold the earldom of Arundel by...
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| x Kimbolton Castle |
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Kimbolton Castle in Kimbolton, Cambridgeshire, is best known as the final home of King Henry VIII's first queen, Catherine of Aragon. Originally a medieval castle but converted into a stately palace, it was the family seat of the Dukes of Manchester...
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| x Chiswick House |
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Chiswick House is a neo-Palladian villa in Burlington Lane, Chiswick, in the London Borough of Hounslow, England.
Chiswick House was inherited by Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington and 4th Earl of Cork, known as "the Apollo of the Arts." The...
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| x 20 Forthlin Road |
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20 Forthlin Road is a National Trust property in south Liverpool, Merseyside, England.
Sir Paul McCartney lived there for several years before he rose to fame with The Beatles in the early 1960s. It was also the home of his brother, Michael...
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| x Woolsthorpe Manor |
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Woolsthorpe Manor in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, near Grantham, Lincolnshire, England, was the birthplace of Sir Isaac Newton on 25 December 1642 (old calendar). At that time it was a yeoman's farmstead, principally rearing sheep (hence the wool...
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| x Calke Abbey |
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Calke Abbey is a country house near Ticknall, Derbyshire, England, a Grade I listed building and a property of the National Trust. The site was an Augustinian priory from the 12th century until its dissolution by Henry VIII.
The present building...
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| x Sudbury Hall |
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Sudbury Hall is a country house in Sudbury, Derbyshire, England.
Sudbury Hall is one the country's finest Restoration mansions and has Grade I listed building status.
The Vernon family came to Sudbury as a result of the 16th century marriage of Sir...
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| x Sizergh Castle & Garden |
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Sizergh Castle & Garden is a castle, stately home and garden in Sizergh, Cumbria, England, about four miles south of Kendal, and in the care of the National Trust.
The Deincourt family had owned the land here since the 1170s and on the marriage of...
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| x Astley Hall |
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Astley Hall is a country house in Chorley, Lancashire, England. Oliver Cromwell is said to have stayed here for a time. The extensive landscaped grounds are now Chorley's Astley Park.
The site was acquired in the 15th century by the Charnock family...
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| x Historic houses in Wales |
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Historic houses in Wales is a link page for any stately home or historic house in Wales.A number of houses in western parts of Herefordshire and Shropshire have shared characteristics of Welsh country houses (taî'r uchelwyr).
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| x Historic houses in Virginia |
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As home to many of America's Founding Fathers, four of the first five U.S. presidents, as well as many important figures of the Confederacy, Virginia has many historic houses. As one of the earliest locations of European settlement in America,...
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| x Paxton House |
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Paxton House is a historic house at Paxton, Berwickshire, in the Scottish Borders, a few miles south-west of Berwick-upon-Tweed, overlooking the River Tweed.
It is a country house built for Patrick Home of Billie in an unsuccessful attempt to woo a...
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| x Bolsover Castle |
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Bolsover Castle is a castle in Bolsover, Derbyshire, England (grid reference SK471707).
It was built by the Peverel family in the 12th century and became Crown property in 1155 when the third William Peverel fled into exile. A stone keep was built...
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| x Milton Abbey |
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Milton Abbey School is a British independent school in the Dorset countryside. It has 250 pupils in six boarding Houses, called Athelstan, Bancks, Damer, Hambro, Middleton and Tregonwell. Founded in 1954, it welcomes boys from 13 – 16 years and is...
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| x Woburn Abbey |
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Woburn Abbey, near Woburn, Bedfordshire, England, is the seat of the Duke of Bedford and the location of the Woburn Safari Park.
Woburn Abbey, comprising Woburn Park and its buildings, was originally founded as a Cistercian abbey in 1145 . Taken...
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| x Blickling Hall |
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Blickling Hall is a stately home in the village of Blickling north of Aylsham in Norfolk, England, that has been in the care of the National Trust since 1940.
Blickling Hall was once in the possession of the Boleyn family, and home to Sir Thomas...
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| x Belton House |
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Belton House is a country house in Belton near Grantham, Lincolnshire, England. The mansion is surrounded by formal gardens and a series of avenues leading to follies within a greater wooded park. Belton has been described as a compilation of all...
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| x Wentworth Woodhouse |
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Wentworth Woodhouse is a Grade I listed country house near the village of Wentworth, in the vicinity of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. "One of the great Whig political palaces", its East Front, 606 ft (185 m) long, is the longest country house...
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| x Newstead Abbey |
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Newstead Abbey, in Nottinghamshire, England, originally an Augustinian priory, is now best known as the ancestral home of Lord Byron.
The priory of St. Mary of Newstead, a house of Augustinian Canons, was founded by King Henry II of England about...
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| x Lacock Abbey |
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Lacock Abbey in the village of Lacock, Wiltshire, England, was founded in the early 13th century by Ela, Countess of Salisbury, as a nunnery of the Augustinian order.
Lacock Abbey was founded by Lady Ela the Countess of Salisbury in the reign of...
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| x Under Secretary's Lodge |
The Under Secretary's Lodge (Irish: Lóisteáil na Fo-Rúnaí) was formerly the Dublin residence of the British Under-Secretary for Ireland (the British Administration's chief civil servant). After the creation of the Irish Free State in 1922, the...
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| x Samlesbury Hall |
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Samlesbury Hall is an historic house in Samlesbury, a village in Lancashire, England. It was built in 1325, is independently owned and, since 1925, administered by a registered charitable trust, the Samlesbury Hall Trust. This medieval manor house...
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| x Harewood House |
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Harewood House (pronounced /ˈhɑː(r)wʊd/, as if written Harwood) is a country house located in Harewood (the village name being pronounced as if written Hairwood), near Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is a member of Treasure Houses of England, a...
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| x Farnley Hall |
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Farnley Hall is a stately home in Farnley, west Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is a grade II listed building. It was built in Elizabethan times by the Danbys. The manor is recorded in the 1086 Domesday Book as Fernelei, so it is probable that...
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Red House Museum is a historic house and museum in Gomersal, West Yorkshire, England.
Red House was built by William Taylor in 1660, and the Taylor family owned it until 1920. The house had a number of famous visitors. One was Charlotte Brontë, who...
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| x Bretton Hall |
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Bretton Hall is a stately home in West Bretton in the county of West Yorkshire, England, near Wakefield. It housed Bretton Hall College (1949-2001) and was a campus of the University of Leeds (2001-2007). It is a Grade II* listed building.
The...
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| x Mount Vernon |
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Mount Vernon, located near Alexandria, Virginia, was the plantation home of the first President of the United States, George Washington. The mansion is built of wood in neoclassical Georgian architectural style, and the estate is located on the...
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| x Temple Newsam |
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Temple Newsam (historically Temple Newsham, in legend Templestowe) (grid reference SE357322) is a Tudor-Jacobean house with grounds landscaped by Capability Brown, in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. The estate lies to the east of the city, just...
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| x Bretby Hall |
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Bretby Hall is a country house at Bretby, Derbyshire, England, north of Swadlincote and east of Burton upon Trent on the border with Staffordshire. It is a Grade II* listed building. The name Bretby means "dwelling place of Britons".
The first...
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| x Blithfield Hall |
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Blithfield Hall (pronounced locally as Bliffield), is a privately owned Grade I listed country house in Staffordshire, England, situated some 9 miles (14 km) east of Stafford, 7 miles (11 km) southwest of Uttoxeter and 5 miles (8.0 km) north of...
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| x Bishopthorpe Palace |
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Bishopthorpe Palace is a stately home and historic house at Bishopthorpe south of York in the City of York unitary authority and ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. It is on the River Ouse and is the official residence of the Archbishop...
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| x Wythenshawe Hall |
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Wythenshawe Hall is a 16th century medieval timber-framed historic house and a former stately home in Wythenshawe, Manchester, England. It is located east of Altrincham and south of Stretford, five miles (8 km) south of Manchester city centre, in...
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| x Lyme Park |
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Lyme Park is a large estate located south of Disley, Cheshire, England (grid reference SJ964823). It consists of a mansion house surrounded by formal gardens, in a deer park in the Peak District National Park. The house is the largest in Cheshire,...
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| x Gawsworth Hall |
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Gawsworth Old Hall is a country house in the village of Gawsworth, Cheshire, England (grid reference SJ891696). The hall is a Grade I listed building and the gardens are graded by the National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens as Grade II*.
The...
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| x Ordsall Hall |
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Ordsall Hall is a historic house and a former stately home in Ordsall, an area of Salford, in Greater Manchester, England. It dates back over 750 years, although the oldest surviving parts of the present hall were built in the 15th century. The most...
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| x Leinster House |
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Leinster House (Irish: Teach Laighean) is the name of the building housing the national parliament of the Republic of Ireland (Irish: Oireachtas Éireann).
The term Leinster House can refer to
The most recognisable part of the complex, and the ...
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| x Stokesay Castle |
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Stokesay Castle, located at Stokesay, a mile south of the town of Craven Arms, in southern Shropshire, is the oldest fortified manor house in England, dating to the 12th century. It is currently in the hands of English Heritage. It is a Grade I...
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| x Tullie House Museum |
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The Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery is a museum in Carlisle, Cumbria in England. Opened by the Carlisle Corporation in 1893, the original building is a converted Jacobean mansion, with extensions added when it was converted. At first the...
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| x Traquair House |
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Traquair House, approximately 5 miles south of Peebles (55°36′37″N 3°04′06″W / 55.61028°N 3.06833°W / 55.61028; -3.06833), is claimed to be the oldest continually inhabited house in Scotland. It is built in the style of a fortified mansion, and...
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| x Hammerwood Park |
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Hammerwood Park is a country house near East Grinstead, Sussex, England at grid reference TQ442389 and Grade 1 listed of historical interest. It was the first work of the Architect Benjamin Latrobe. Built in 1792, it was one of the first houses in...
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| x Harlaxton Manor |
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Harlaxton Manor is an 1837 manor house in Harlaxton, Lincolnshire, England. It combines elements of Jacobean and Elizabethan architecture with symmetrical Baroque massing to create a house more exuberant than any surviving Jacobethan example.
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