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A History of the County of Warwick
… above the Avon, to Fulbrook and Hampton Lucy. Sherbourne House is a building of three stories, cellars, and attics. The original house, dating from about 1700, was of rectangular plan; later … partly covering the original west front. The original house rises above all these additions; it has walls of brick …
A History of the County of Surrey
… Aubrey mentions 'the extraordinary good parsonage house,' which still remains at the western end of the … smuggled goods till they could be conveniently taken on to London. Of late years the picturesque neighbourhood has … the custody of the manor to John Pulteney, Lord Mayor of London, who did the customary service for it to John de …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… four miles north-east from Basingstoke station on the London and South Western main line to Southampton. The … Reading and Basingstoke road south of Wheler's Court. This house was the capital messuage of the Wheler estate in the … There the courts leet for the manor were held. The house, which was of Caroline date, was pulled down and …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… to the maintenance of his horse. 11 His dwelling-house, described as valueless in 1535, 12 had been succeeded … of the same king's prisoners here afterwards brought to London for very different destinies after Bosworth were … actual value was shown by the sale in 1628, to the City of London, of the reversion 'at the ancient rent of 788 15 s. 7 …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 26 Grouped in the north part were the church, the rectory house, a Norman castle or fortified house, the demesne farm buildings, and the mill. In the south … bailey was found c. 1972 30 but no masonry of a keep or a house on the motte is in situ, and how long a building on it …
A History of the County of Bedford
… and seventeenth centuries the site of the mansion-house of the manor was leased out by the crown, which … gave up their right in Little Holwell to James Dod of London, haberdasher, 66 but nothing further has been … 14 s. is received annually from the Clothworkers Company, London, and is applied as to 10 8 s. in money generally among …
A History of the County of Warwick
… the porch was repaired with floor-slabs from the Guest House of the monastery at Coventry. 15a The aisle (29 ft. 3 …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… towards the Kennet valley. The soil is almost wholly London Clay with considerable spreads of valley gravel about … of St. Giles's, Reading, in 1889. 4 The church and manor-house of Shinfield lie on the eastern side of the parish, not … here in 1707 by Richard Piggott, citizen and cutler of London. The original house still stands. It is a two-storied …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… still owned in 1979. 35 The Hospitallers apparently had a house at Shingay from the late 12th century, 36 and the … what was then known as Shingay Hall and later as Shingay House, including the insertion of new windows and a staircase and the complete rebuilding of some rooms. The house then included a hall, a dining room, a great chamber, …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… obtaining the title of baron Raby, which was Sir Henry's house, and an honor which he had hopes of acquiring himself, … the use of the poor the annual sum of 1l. charged on the house called the Bull inn, in Rochester, and 2l. likewise on …