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Marlborough House. Marlborough House, a Grade I listed [1] mansion on The Mall in St James's, City of Westminster, London, is the headquarters of the Commonwealth of Nations and the seat of the Commonwealth Secretariat. It is adjacent to St James's Palace. The house was built in 1711 for Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, the favourite ...
Contents. Kit house. Kit houses, also known as mill-cut houses, pre-cut houses, ready-cut houses,mail order homes, or catalog homes, were a type of housing that was popular in the United States, Canada, and elsewhere in the first half of the 20th century. [ 1 ] Kit house manufacturers sold houses in many different plans and styles, from simple ...
Kit's Coty House or Kit's Coty is a chambered long barrow near the village of Aylesford in the southeastern English county of Kent. Constructed circa 4000 BCE, during the Early Neolithic period of British prehistory, today it survives in a ruined state. Archaeologists have established that the monument was built by pastoralist communities ...
By Bud Dietrich, AIA Kit houses were America's first mass-produced, prefab homes, sold by Sears, Montgomery Ward, Gordon Van Tine, Aladdin and a few others. The materials for these homes, ordered ...
Prefabs (prefabricated homes) were a major part of the delivery plan to address the United Kingdom's post–World War II housing shortage. They were envisaged by war-time prime minister Winston Churchill in March 1944, and legally outlined in the Housing (Temporary Accommodation) Act 1944. Taking the details of the public housing plan from the ...
An I-house is a two or three-story house that is one room deep with a double-pen, hall-parlor, central-hall or saddlebag layout. [14] New England I-house: characterized by a central chimney [15] Pennsylvania I-house: characterized by internal gable-end chimneys at the interior of either side of the house [15]
St Andrew's Church, Gunton in woodland to the east of the hall is a redundant Church of England church. The church was built in 1769 and designed by Robert Adam for Sir William Harbord, to replace a medieval church. [6] It is a Grade I listed building, [7] and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
The magazine launched in April 1986 in London, England. Each issue features country houses from around the UK plus accompanying photographs and owner profiles; country style decorating; interior design ideas; gardens and planting advice; and seasonal food and entertaining. Other articles include 'Earning a living' which profiles small country ...