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A History of the County of Northampton
… produces good crops of wheat and barley. A large two-story house at the south end of the village, faced with alternate … Domini Benedictum', and is probably by a 15th-century London maker. 8 The communion plate, which included a cup and … were 'consumed in a fire which broke out in the parsonage house some years ago and burned a considerable part of the …
A History of the County of Bedford
… round it. In the farmyard is a square half-timbered pigeon-house plastered over on the outside and having a tile roof. … is likely, therefore, that it is the remains of the manor-house of Netherbury. The following early place-names have …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… several buildings in the early 16th century, and the house occupied by the lords farmer of the manor in the 17th … demesne stood uninhabitable in 1789. 32 In 1831, when a house (Upper Farm) south-west of the churchyard was the … Morse, perhaps his brother. In 1750 Thomas Cotton, a London banker, acquired the copyhold, comprising 222 a., and …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Foss Way. In 1964 it comprised the church, rectory, manor-house (all of which are described below), one large farm-house, two 20th-century houses, and only a few older … cottages, of which two had been converted into a farm-house. It thus contained a large proportion of the more …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… on the west side of the street, a late 16th century house having a central chimney stack with octagonal shafts … of the old church, by tradition represents the site of the house of Drurys Manor. 2 The house was demolished about 1787, and nothing now remains of …
Magna Britannia
… sea-coast, seven miles from Honiton, and about 153 from London. The market was granted in or about the year 1342, to … of dilapidation: part of it has been fitted up as a farm-house. The manor of Whitwell belonged anciently to the … ancient market-town eight miles from Exeter, and 183 from London. The market was granted in or about 1309, to Walter …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… present owner, Mr. Alfred Clayton Cole. 13 The old manor-house, lying north of the church, is a simple rectangular …
A History of the County of Warwick
… the 16th century John (afterwards Lord) Harington built a house incorporating three sides of the 15thcentury … put in hand the enlargement and partial rebuilding of the house, his agent being his nephew Sir William Craven. 7 Part … to Elizabeth widow of Sir William Craven, Lord Mayor of London in 161011, for 36,000. 31 In 1624 she settled the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… siting may have been affected by the position of the manor-house of Burdeleys, since before 1100 the church belonged … at Comberton, were granted to the mayor and corporation of London to found a new hospital. 229 They assigned Comberton … pp. 13. B.M. Cott. MS. Cleop. C. v, ff. 54v.58. V.C.H. London, i. 5469; Cal. S.P. Dom. 154780, 85. Cal. Pat. 1553, …
A History of the County of Surrey
… by the mortuary chapel, the other Rowbury Hill, near the house of the late Mr. G. F. Watts, R.A., called Limnerslease. … doors have flat arched heads; and the date of the whole house appears to be about the second quarter of the 16th … stories, and high pitched tiled roofs, those of a farm-house at Compton being hipped over the wings of the front in …