Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
British and Irish country house contents auctions are usually held on site at the country house, and have been used to raise funds for their owners, usually before selling the house and estate. Such auctions include the sale of high quality antique paintings , furniture , objets d'art , tapestries , books , and other household items.
In 1917, the contents of the house, including the art and furniture collections, were sold at auction. [5] On 20 July 1920, the mansion and the surrounding 50 acres (20 ha) were sold and, later that year, it became a hotel. [2] [7] In 1934, the A24 bypass road opened, [12] cutting through the Deepdene estate close to the house. [13] [14]
Sussex is a village in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, United States, about 19 miles (31 km) northwest of Milwaukee and 9 miles (14 km) north of Waukesha. The village is 7.24 square miles (19 km 2 ) at an elevation of 930 feet.
The house dates back to the 15th century, [1] and is a timber-framed building. [4] It has 50 rooms. [ 5 ] In the 16th century, it was owned by John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners , who made the first English translation of Froissart's Chronicles , and later by the Earl of Lincoln .
Birch Hall is a sprawling estate originally built in 1740 and located in a charming village in Surrey, and it once belonged to Princess Eugenie and Princess Beatrice of the British royal family ...
Witley Park from the west: The mansion built in the mid-2000s is centre right and the body of water nearest the camera is Thursley Lake. Witley Park, formerly known as Lea Park, is an estate dating from the late 19th century between Godalming and Haslemere in Surrey, England.
Titsey Place is an English country house near Oxted in Surrey, England. It was successively the seat of the Gresham and Leveson-Gower families and is now preserved by a charitable trust for the nation. The house has its origins in a 16th-century house, which was built by Sir John Gresham (1495–1556) on the
Although Leopold retained ownership of Claremont until his death in 1865, he left the house in 1831 when he became the first King of the Belgians. [9] Mausoleum of Princess Charlotte Claremont House, ca. 1860. Queen Victoria was a frequent visitor to Claremont—both as a child and later as an adult—when Leopold, her doting uncle, lent her ...