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Cowdray House consists of the ruins of one of England's great Tudor houses, architecturally comparable to many of the great palaces and country houses of that time. It is situated in the parish of Easebourne , just east of Midhurst , West Sussex standing on the north bank of the River Rother .
Michaelstowe Hall is a manor house in the village of Ramsey near Harwich, Essex, England.. The present Michaelstowe Hall dates from 1903, but the Michaelstowe Estate has a long and varied history which can readily be traced back to the Domesday Book of 1086.
The number of the male domestics in a family varies according to the wealth and position of the master, from the owner of the ducal mansion, with a retinue of attendants, at the head of which is the chamberlain and house-steward, to the occupier of the humbler house, where a single footman, or even the odd man-of-all-work, is the only male ...
The first footman would serve as deputy butler and act as butler in the latter's absence, although some larger houses also had an under-butler above the first footman. In a larger household, various footmen might be assigned specific duties (for which there might be a traditional sequence), such as the silver specialist.
Sandywell Park is an Jacobean Georgian manor house, five miles east of Cheltenham in Gloucestershire, England. [1] Built in 1704 by Henry Brett, it was extended a few times over the 18th century. In the mid-eighteenth century the Sandywell Park estate acquired the Whittington Court building. Sandywell Park is today a Grade II* listed building. [2]
Schloss Machern (Machern Castle) near Leipzig is an example of a typical manor house, it evolved from a medieval castle which was originally protected by a water moat and later was converted into a baroque-style castle with typical architectural features of the period and one of the first English-style parks in Germany.
Edgcote House (or Hall) is an 18th-century country house of two storeys plus a basement and a nine bay frontage. [5] The manor house is built of local ironstone with dressings of fine grey stone. [5] Features include a carved mahogany staircase, and a drawing room decorated in a Chinese style. It is a Grade I listed building.
The company tore down the ancillary buildings around the manor house and built employee housing. The mansion itself was used in a variety of ways including as a clubhouse. In 1959, American Oil tore down the refinery, abandoning the site; the following 12 years brought rapid decay for Destrehan Plantation house.