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A History of the County of Hertford
… Hitchin. 2 Near to the mill the foundations of a Roman house were found in 1884. A little distance from the … the former Green Man Inn, a picturesque little thatched house, and one or two late 16th-century or early 17th-century … Manor Farm is a 16th-century three-gabled and plastered house situated at the left-hand corner where the road from …
A History of the County of Warwick
… Packington Hall has an inscription in the lead roof: 'This house was built by Sir Clement Fisher Bart. in the year 1693 … 1772. Henry Couchman, Surveyor of the work.' The original house was of brick, but except for a chimneystack or two in the middle of the house it is lost in the later enlargements. The house, built …
A History of the County of Essex
… parish, comprising 2,232 a. (903 ha.), lay 35 km. NNE of London and 5 km. west of Harlow village. 1 A short branch of … 4 flow north to the Stort. The soil in the uplands is London clay and boulder clay, with glacial gravels on the … 15 They include several of the manor houses, Toddbrook House, and Hare Street Farm. Toddbrook House, formerly …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… a half miles from Offord station on the main line of the London and North-Eastern Railway, which crosses the parish … 17thcentury timber-framed cottages in Adams Lane and London Lane, a name which goes back to the 16th century. … Compton. 34 His second son Thomas was lord mayor of London in 165960 and was created a baronet in 1660. 35 His …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… At the south-east end on the top of the hill is the Manor House, a 17thcentury building now much modernised. Near here, … half-timbered cottages and the Three Horseshoes public house, which has a good chimney stack. At White House Farm, … he married Anne, second daughter of George Dashwood of London (who was the sister of George Dashwood of Peyton Hall, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… centre may have been near where the church and manor-house stand close to each other 400 yards south-west from the … group of buildings, including the rectory and another farm-house, marks the south-west limit of the village. From it a … was sold in 1554 to Thomas Reeve and George Cotton of London, 105 and passed before 1589 to another Robert Lambert, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Magog Hills, was laid out as a golf course, with a club house in Great Shelford parish. 13 It was still used as such … also crossed by three railway lines. The Great Eastern's London (Liverpool Street) to Cambridge line, with a station … In 1609 it was sold to George Salter and John Williams of London. 69 They presumably resold it to John Goldwell, who by …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… of which is Smeaton Hall, a typical Georgian red brick house. The houses are closely grouped round the road on each … The plate consists of a cup and cover bearing the London mark of 1571, a plated cup and two pewter patens. The …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… with Dauntsey station on the G.W.R. line between London and Bristol, was built across the parish and opened in … of 12th century masonry have been found in the mound. 21 A house called the Mount was built south of the mound in the … Mount, a timber-framed building was erected, possibly as a house, in the early 17th century. The rectory house was built …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… of the decision on an appeal to the Privy Council. The house now called the Rectory Farm, but formerly known as the … by Hawise, to John de Abynton, citizen and clothier of London. 52 Hawise married Geoffrey de Drayton and by deed … until the rectory was granted to the Charterhouse, London, by Richard II in 1381 and confirmed in 1394. A …