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The Court House is a grade I listed house in Hale Lane, Painswick, Gloucestershire, England, within the Cotswolds.. The house was built in the late 16th century with additions in 1604, [1] for Thomas Gardener on the site of an earlier manor house.
Domestic real estate represented the largest non-financial asset in the UK, with a net worth of £5.1trillion (2014). [3] Foreign investment plays a substantial role in the UK's real estate market, particularly in London, and foreign companies and individuals invested around £20billion in UK real estate in 2012. [4] [needs update]
It was Pain fitzJohn, a relative of de Lacy, who is the namesake of the village of Painswick and the manor house. [2] Painswick Lodge has been the home of the Lord of the Manor for Painswick between 1530 and 1804, when the manorial rights were purchased by Thomas Croome , at which point the manor house for the area was at the nearby Beech Farm.
For the purposes of local government, Edge is a constituent village of the Painswick civil parish, which also includes the neighbouring villages of Sheepscombe and Slad. [1] The civil parish forms part of the district of Stroud and the county of Gloucestershire. For parliamentary purposes, Edge is within the UK constituency of Stroud.
Thomas Twining, tea merchant, was born in Painswick in 1675, and in 1706 set up his first tea shop at 216 Strand, London, later to become home of the famous Twinings brand. The first Baron Dickinson lived in Painswick. His son, the second Baron, runs the Painswick Rococo Garden, designed by Benjamin Hyett II in the 1740s. [citation needed]
Holcombe House was originally built for a wealthy clothier from Painswick in the late 1600s, [2] and was later enlarged and remodelled in the early 1900s by Detmar Blow in the Arts and Crafts manner. [3] The house was subject of a painting by Charles March Gere in 1926. [4]
Hackwood Park is a large 260-acre (110 ha) country estate that primarily consists of an 18th-century ornamental woodland and formal lawn garden in addition to a 51,681 sq ft (4,801.3 m 2) mansion of symmetrical design.
Media related to Beacon House, Painswick at Wikimedia Commons 51°47′10″N 2°11′43″W / 51.78607°N 2.19520°W / 51.78607; -2 This article about a Gloucestershire building or structure is a stub .