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This is intended to be as full a list as possible of country houses, castles, palaces, other stately homes, and manor houses in the United Kingdom and the Channel Islands; any architecturally notable building which has served as a residence for a significant family or a notable figure in history.
Moor Park is an affluent private residential estate in the Three Rivers District of Hertfordshire, England.It is amongst the most prestigious and sought-after addresses on the outskirts of London and is recognised as one of the five established millionaire neighbourhoods in Hertfordshire.
East Road (2014) St George's Hill is a 964-acre (3.9 km 2) private gated community in Weybridge, Surrey, England. Located 23 miles southwest of Central London and compromising more than 450 properties, the land that is now the contemporary St George's Hill estate was purchased by master builder W. G. Tarrant in 1911.
This enables the former owners to offset tax, the payment of which would otherwise have necessitated the private sale of the art works. For example, tapestries and furniture at Houghton Hall are now owned by the Victoria and Albert Museum. In addition, increasing numbers of country houses hold licences for weddings and civil ceremonies.
Until recently the ownership interest referred to comprised generally a freehold interest in real estate let on long leases. That is to say reversionary interests in land and buildings, with the right before expiry of the leases to charge annual ground rent and to refuse any alterations to the use of the land and structure and appearance of the buildings.
Due to dense population and government control of land use, Hong Kong's most common residential housing form is the highrise housing estate, which may be publicly owned, privately owned, or semi-private. Due to the real-estate developers oligopoly (sometimes called real estate hegemony, Chinese: 地產霸權) in the territory, and the economies ...
Cams Hall. Cams Estate is a 400-acre private estate in Fareham UK. The estate is mainly surrounded by tidal waters and is located at the northern extremity of Fareham Creek. Today it is a golf course and business park with a strong technology theme among the business residen
The Langham Estate was described in 2017 as being one of London's 16 Great Estates with its footprint of 13.8 acres of central London property. [11] [12] Many of the entity's original properties are still held—but now in the form of freehold as their long leases have been sold off. [1] Samuel Tak Lee of Hong Kong is said to be its owner.