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A History of the County of Huntingdon
… road is the Manor Farm, where there is a late 17th-century house and a fragmentary moat which probably surrounded a manor house of earlier date. The house has a modern south-east … 1 Crowland Abbey. Gules three knives argent with bafts or quartered with Azure three scourges or, the knives and …
A History of the County of Rutland
… The church is in the middle of the village. The Manor House, which is dated 1687, stands on the north-east and has … h.p. 1664. Many of the cottages are of stone with thatch or stone roofs. The almshouses here were founded in 1612 by … The lower part of the jambs may be old. It took the place of an 'unsightly square window': Stamford Mercury, 30 …
A History of the County of Surrey
… (although some yards before the cross-roads near Rose Hill House the boundary goes up into the fields again); the Ewell … house has some good wrought-iron entrance gates. Garth. Or two lions passant between three crosslets fitchy sable. In … 300 for building and endowing a free school in her native place, besides gifts to the church (see monument in church). …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… is Morestead Farm, south again of which is Morestead House, the property of Mr. R. Eden Richardson, whose large … estates with birds. To the south-west is a fine house 'The Firs,' the residence of Mr. Joseph Storey Curtis, … Barton formerly Chilcomb. 12 Carnegie, Earl of Northesk. Or an eagle sable with a naval crown or on his breast and the …
A History of the County of Warwick
… parish, where the ground rises fairly rapidly from 200 ft. or less to about 350 ft. From the Fosse Way two roads lead … of stone with an original brick shaft. Moreton House, a little farther north, also on the west side, is a … at the eaves-level. It has a Tudor stone fire-place and an oak chimney-piece: in the overmantel are two …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… by the 18th century 19 probably always served as a market place. The assessment for tax in 1327 suggests that Moreton … the west side of the Foss Way (where cottages of that date or earlier 21 were pulled down in the 20th century), and … The Mann Institute 3. Congregational chapel 4. Lemington House 5. White Hart Hotel 6. Redesdale Arms Hotel 7. The …
A History of the County of Surrey
… alluvium, and the land which is not occupied by houses or included in Richmond Park is mostly garden ground. The … acquired for the use of this manufacture. The Tapestry House on the river bank opposite the parish church is now … the Restoration in 1664 East Sheen was condemned as a place where conventicles were innumerable, 72 and among the …
A History of the County of Warwick
… oak lintel and a fixed oak dresser probably as old as the house. The rooms have stop-chamfered ceiling-beams and some … was timber-framed, but has been considerably repaired or cased with 18th-century and later brickwork. 4 The main … have moulded ceiling-beams and one of them a wide fire-place. The south wing has 17th-century stop-chamfered beams. …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Stockbridge road. In a meadow to the east of Oakley farm-house stands the famous 'Oakley Oak,' which, 4 ft. above the … been added to Mottisfbnt for civil purposes. The following place-names occur: Wopstrete alias Walpstreate (xvi cent.) 3; … the house was brought to its present condition, the north or main wing of the housethe nave of the monastic churchbeing …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… 1 The only residence of any note in the parish is Pitt Place, an 18th-century house belonging to Sir Charles Seely, bart., and tenanted by … Sir Charles Seely. 36 Dillington. Gules a leaping lion or. CHURCH The church of ST. PETER and ST. PAUL adjoins the …