Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The King's House. The most important building in Lyndhurst is the King's House, which has also in the past been called the Queen's House, for the name changes according to the gender of the monarch. [16] It is the principal building owned by the Crown in the New Forest, and contains the Verderers' Hall, home of the ancient Verderers' Court. [16]
Lyndhurst, also known as the Jay Gould estate, is a Gothic Revival country house that sits in its own 67-acre (27 ha) park beside the Hudson River in Tarrytown, New York, about a half mile south of the Tappan Zee Bridge on US 9. The house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966. [3] [4]
Glasshayes House is a historic country house in Lyndhurst, in The New Forest, Hampshire. Used in the 20th century as the Grand Hotel, then the Lyndhurst Park Hotel, it exists today in the form of a 1912 redesign by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The building and estate was purchased in 2014 by developers who sought to demolish it wholesale.
This page was last edited on 7 December 2009, at 13:36 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
The first mention of the house is from 1604, when it was owned by Charles Blount, 8th Baron Mountjoy. [4] In 1667, Mabel, wife of John Cole, petitioned King Charles II for a lease of the property as a reward for her attendance on the late King Charles I in his imprisonment. King Charles II planted a tree there. [5]
The "So Awkward" star died last September at the age of 19.
Lyndhurst Further information: Lyndhurst (house) In 1864 Merritt bought Knoll, the former country estate of William S. Paulding, Jr. and hired architect Alexander Jackson Davis to expand the estate, doubling the house's size in the gothic revival style between 1864 and 1865, renaming it "Lyndenhurst" for the estate's linden trees. [ 13 ]
The house faces south at a right angle to Lyndhurst Gardens. The eastern flank of the house has a tall chimney and a broad gable. [1] The house is built of red brick, with tile-hanging features on the upper storey. The casement windows are built partly of stone and timber, with leaded lights.