Country Houses

Comments (0) KEY FACTSLongbourton£3,950,000EightStrutt & Parker True to its Elizabethan style, West Hall is an eight bedroom manor house which not only provides staff accommodation, but separates them from the gentry on approach. The property is accessed by a long drive from the village of Longburton which forks one way via beautiful park and woodland scenery … Continue reading »

How would you fancy owning this 12th century property, formerly used as a hotel and wedding venue. Pinchinthorpe Hall is up for sale on a leasehold basis for £110,000 plus rent. Previously up for sale for £2.5m , the property is located near the village of Newton under Roseberry, between Great Ayton and Guisborough . … Continue reading »

Published: 12:32 EST, 25 March 2016 | Updated: 13:12 EST, 25 March 2016 A manor house that has been in the same family for the last 200 years is on sale for just the third time in its history. The owners of Tunstall House, a Grade I listed building in the pretty village of Tunstall, … Continue reading »

Venue: Callendar House will play host to the event. Falkirk Community Trust A new festival celebrating literature and illustration is set to be held at a historic mansion. The LandWords event will be held at Falkirk’s Callendar House over two weekends in April and May. Edinburgh International Book Festival teamed up with the Falkirk Community Trust … Continue reading »

Wiltshire police are appealing for witnesses after a man left a trail of destruction through a stately home when his order at a tea room took too long to arrive. A 48-year-old man from Monmouthshire has been arrested and released on bail while the police investigate. The near farcical stream of events started with the … Continue reading »

A look inside Norfolk’s £1m-plus large country houses 17:37 18 March 2016 Caroline Culot Clockwise from top: Wortham Manor, Keswick Mill and Bodney Hall. Archant Property editor Caroline Culot reports on the coming to market of several high value country houses with different agents. You currently have JavaScript disabled, functionality will be lim… (View original … Continue reading »

Bellinter House, the Co Meath hotel owned by Jay Bourke and John Reynolds, is set to be acquired by Irish businessman Barry O’Sullivan and a small group of private investors for about €3 million. The cash deal is expected to close this week after Mr O’Sullivan and his US-based backers were granted exclusivity some weeks … Continue reading »

The Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation is leading a campaign to pay for key restoration work at Flat Top Manor, aka Cone Manor, at the Moses H. Cone Memorial Park./NPS Moses H. Cone Memorial Park is one of the spectacular places on the Blue Ridge Parkway where history and recreation meet. The 3,500-acre park is crisscrossed … Continue reading »

If ever a stately home had an exuberant history, it is this, poised on a cliff high above the Thames. Home to an earl, three countesses (one the cause of a fatal duel), two dukes, a Prince of Wales (killed by a cricket ball on the terrace) and the Viscounts Astor, the present Italianate pleasure … Continue reading »

Published: 08:05 EST, 26 February 2016 | Updated: 18:56 EST, 26 February 2016 The new owner of this historic manor house may be a bit nervous about moving in – as its former inhabitant and his daughter ended up being executed. The Grade II listed Peamore House was commissioned by Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk … Continue reading »