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The castle is also open for tours on prior notification. The castle is also used as a cultural venue. Borreby Art Gallery is based in the former courthouse as well as some former stables. Borreby Theatre with a capacity of 450 spectators is currently under construction in a former barn, and other buildings will house a restaurant and café. [5]
Before the list itself, a discussion of its scope includes lengthy lists of buildings excluded from the main lists for various reasons. The Castellarium Anglicanum, an authoritative index of castles in England and Wales published in 1983, lists over 1,500 castle sites in England. [2] Many of these castles have vanished or left almost no trace.
1779 portrait of Castenschiold. Lieutenant-General Joachim Melchior Holten von Castenschiold (29 November 1743 – 6 April 1817) was a Danish army officer and landowner who served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
Oakley Court in 1870. Richard Hall-Say built Oakley Court in 1859 two years after his marriage. He was born as Richard Hall in 1827. [4] His father was Richard Hall, a merchant, but it was his mother Harriet Say that brought to him his great wealth.
Chateau Impney Hotel & Exhibition Centre is a Grade II* listed [1] 19th-century house built in the style of an elaborate French château near Droitwich Spa in Worcestershire, England. Of the large mansions in Worcestershire supported by industrial fortunes, Sir Nicolas Pevsner judged Impney to be "the showiest of them all in the county". [ 2 ]
Fort Belvedere (originally Shrubs Hill Tower) is a Grade II* listed country house on Shrubs Hill in Windsor Great Park, in Surrey, England. [1] The fort was predominantly constructed by Jeffry Wyatville in a Gothic Revival style in the 1820s.
Bovey Castle, formerly the Manor House Hotel, is a large early 20th-century mansion on the edge of Dartmoor National Park, near Moretonhampstead, Devon, England. It is a Grade II* listed building [ 1 ] and is now a hotel with 59 individually designed bedrooms in the hotel and 22 three-storey country lodges nearby.
Rushton Hall in Rushton, Northamptonshire, England, was the ancestral home of the Tresham family from 1438, when William Tresham, a veteran of the Battle of Agincourt and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster bought the estate. In the 20th century the house became a private school and it has now been converted to a luxury hotel.