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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 ...
In the 19th century members of the English Rothschild family bought and built many country houses in the home counties, furnishing them with the art the family collected. The area of the Vale of Aylesbury, where many of the houses were situated, became known as "Rothchildshire". In the 20th century many of these properties were sold off with ...
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 ...
807,000 sq ft (75,000 m 2) in 94 galleries. The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the world. [ 3 ] It documents the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.
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 bungalows to imposing ...
Designated. 27 February 1950 [1] Reference no. 1384672. Location of Saltford Manor in Somerset. The Saltford Manor is a stone house in Saltford, Somerset, near Bath, that is thought to be the oldest continuously occupied private house in England, [2][3][4] and has been designated as a Grade II* listed building. [1]
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 ...
Sutton Place, 3 miles (4.8 km) north-east [n 1] of Guildford in Surrey, is a large Grade I listed [1] Tudor prodigy house built c. 1525 [2] by Sir Richard Weston (d. 1541), a courtier of Henry VIII. It is of importance to art history in showing some of the earliest traces of Italianate Renaissance design elements in English architecture.