Groups
Country Houses - Unidentified
About the group Aiming to identify any mystery country houses
Created 1 July 2012
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Thorncombe Park near Godalming
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TomRobin |
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Beautiful Georgian house - possibly Rutland. Not Tickencote Hall.
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Matthew Beckett - The Country Seat |
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Three-storey, Victorian or late Regency - with possibly a dome?
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Matthew Beckett - The Country Seat |
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Unidentified Large Country House in Scotland
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EastMarple1 |
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Distant manor house on the edge of a village.
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Matthew Beckett - The Country Seat |
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Nettleden House
Listing Text TL 01 SW NETTLEDEN WITH NETTLEDEN POTTEN END (North side) 3/214 Nettleden House - (Formerly listed as Nettleden) GV II Parsonage, now a private house. 1856 by Lady Marion Alford jointly with her son John William Spencer, 2nd Earl Brownlow, an amateur architect. Red brick in English-bond, diapered in blue brick on S front, buff brick raised quoins and dressings to openings with stone windows and chamfered plinth offset. Steep brown tiled roofs banded with scalloped tiles. A large 2-storeys house in a Free Jacobean Style set in terraced gardens overlooking the village from the N. Gabled 1½-storeys stables a little to W now linked to main house. Linking garage block not of special interest. S front has 3 gables over mullioned stone windows to 1st floor, semi-octagonal stone mullioned bay window on LH and buttress between 2 3-lights mullioned and transomed stone windows. Wooden sliding sashes set between mullions. Stone string course. Tall twisted grouped moulded brick chimney shafts with spurred caps. Arched openings to porch recessed in SW corner of house with battened door. Terra cotta plaque over entrance with 'B' and coronet over and '1856'. Large carved stone armorial achievement projects at SW corner of S front. Built to house Rev G.S. Cautley formerly tutor to the Earl Brownlow. Cost £2657.14s.5d. (VCH (1908) 317: Pevsner (1977) 258: inf from Mrs. Jean Simpson). Listing NGR: TL0212610548 |
Class31 |
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Manor house just visible on the right-hand side - H-plan.
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Matthew Beckett - The Country Seat |
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Rushbrooke Hall, S.E. of Bury St Edmunds. Destroyed during demolition 1961. Bottom L.H. corner
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Where's Canning Town? |
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This replaced a fine 'historic' house in the 1870s. Demolished in 1949.
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Where's Canning Town? |
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Demolished 1947
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Where's Canning Town? |
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The Manor House in the centre of Mildenhall, Suffolk; just to the North of the church. It was demolished in 1934. Combination of the family diminishing and high land value.
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Where's Canning Town? |
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Manor house - possibly Elizabethan (E-plan) but looks to have been altered later. Significant parkland too.
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Matthew Beckett - The Country Seat |
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Related to this image: http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/epw057612?filter=28706&dir=1&ref=37
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Matthew Beckett - The Country Seat |
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There is a striking resemblance in topography to the set EPW044878. A different date and also unfortunately also unlocated.
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TomRobin |
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A moated manor house, location unknown. The previous photo in the sequence, EPW039760, is of Bracon Lodge, Bracon Ash, South Norfolk. The countryside looks similar in the two photos. There is no EPW039762. So possibly this is a moated manor house somewhere in Norfolk or Suffolk.
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Rebecca |
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Channonz Hall.
Approx 20km south south-west of Norwich |
Andrew Bennett |
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Possibly earlier house with later additions - note the stepped gables but the almost French-style roof on the tower on the hidden entrance front.
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Matthew Beckett - The Country Seat |
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Definitely Eastbury - have postcards of the house and grounds - burnt down around 1969. Carpenders Mansion -AKA Highfield school in the distance
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Neil Hamilton |
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I've no idea of the location of this country house.
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Class31 |
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House now identified as Swillington House in Yorkshire
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Class31 |
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A remarkably large house - feels Victorian gothic, possibly Yorkshire or Lancashire, possibly incorporating an older house. The addition of the wing shown to the south could indicate that the house has now become a school as it could be a dormitory.
Similar to Hornby Castle but differs in the details: http://www.ecastles.co.uk/hornby.html |
Matthew Beckett - The Country Seat |
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Canford School, near Wimborne Minster, Dorset
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Andrew Bennett |
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Country house with extensive open-cast mine workings to the foreground. House is unfortunately in the shadow but looks to be Classical.
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Matthew Beckett - The Country Seat |
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Large Classical country house added to what appears to be an older tower - possibly a pele tower, which could indicate Borders, or Northumberland. Also note the wing to the beyond the tower - seems to be 'E-plan' which could be an even older house. The large wing at the other end seems slightly-oversize, perhaps Victorian.
This house has the feel of one which has been added to over successive eras. |
Matthew Beckett - The Country Seat |
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Country house in the middle of parkland
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Matthew Beckett - The Country Seat |
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Monkhams Hall
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Class31 |
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Along with EPW027279, they show the rear and side elevations but unfortunately not the main front which would probably make this easier to identify.
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Matthew Beckett - The Country Seat |
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Reminds me of one of the NT houses I've been to but can't think which one it is.
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Rhoobarb |
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Interesting Arts & Crafts house with a bold corner arrangement; an offset projection of windows.
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Matthew Beckett - The Country Seat |
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Probably Victorian
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Matthew Beckett - The Country Seat |
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Related to this image: http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/epw059074
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Matthew Beckett - The Country Seat |
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Probably Victorian.
Related to this image: http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/epw059073?filter=28706&dir=1&ref=39 |
Matthew Beckett - The Country Seat |
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Country house just visible to bottom left - but have a look at the larger building to the north of it, another house?
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Matthew Beckett - The Country Seat |
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This looks like a house which has become a school; note the number of tennis courts, playing fields, a swimming pool with diving board.
The house itself looks to be Georgian with Victorian extensions, sizeable conservatory on the right, and an elegant loggia to the garden front. |
Matthew Beckett - The Country Seat |
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Interesting double exposure - is it intended to show before and after? It seems to be a large, Victorian semi-gothic mansion. Any ideas?
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Matthew Beckett - The Country Seat |
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Identified as Claughton Hall - added for interest only.
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Matthew Beckett - The Country Seat |
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Other view of previous house - EPW027279
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Matthew Beckett - The Country Seat |
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Identified as Hursley Park - added to this group for interest
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Matthew Beckett - The Country Seat |
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Identified as Frondeg Hall, Wrexham. Added for interest only.
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Matthew Beckett - The Country Seat |
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Identified as Westwood House, Worcestershire. Added for interest only.
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Matthew Beckett - The Country Seat |
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Another shot of the same identified Welsh country house. Added for interest only.
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Matthew Beckett - The Country Seat |
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This one has already been identified but thought it useful to add it to this country houses group for interest.
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Matthew Beckett - The Country Seat |
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Possibly Georgian original house on left with later Victorian addition to the right.
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Matthew Beckett - The Country Seat |
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This is St John's House Ryde, Isle of Wight.
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John Brownscombe |
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Very difficult to make this one out but there appears to be a large old building on the banks of a wide river. May even be a ruin. Note also partially shown house bottom left.
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EastMarple1 |
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Suggest that this is Berwick House near Shrewsbury on the banks of the River Severn.
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Class31 |
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Lovely smaller Gothic with matching stables - of note is the quite large house built below it - a dower house maybe?
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Matthew Beckett - The Country Seat |
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This is Queen's Tower in Sheffield. The house still exists and is close to Park Grange Tram station.
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Gavin Thomas |
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This one will be instantly recognisable if you know it. Fantastic late (?) Georgian house with projecting corner wings and a distinctive tri-portal decoration to the centre - note the 'Adam-esque' swags underneath each. That garden must be well-known too!
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Matthew Beckett - The Country Seat |
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Hi, this one is Ragley Hall near Alcester, Warwickshire. Home of the Marquess and Marchioness of Hertford and open to the public. http://www.ragleyhall.com/
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This is a tough one - the skyline of a country house just rises above the trees in the middle of the image with ogee-capped turrets on the left. A bit Knebworth?
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Matthew Beckett - The Country Seat |
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Wonderful Scots-Baronial house - very distinctive.
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Matthew Beckett - The Country Seat |
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Lovely smaller Regency villa - possibly a rectory though rather than a country house.
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Matthew Beckett - The Country Seat |
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Victorian/Edwardian. Perhaps something on the upper reaches of the Thames?
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Matthew Beckett - The Country Seat |
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Possibly Thornbridge Hall (http://www.thornbridgehall.co.uk/) according to the comments - I'm inclined to agree.
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Matthew Beckett - The Country Seat |
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Rather rambling house - feels a bit Pugin.
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Matthew Beckett - The Country Seat |
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Interestingly mixed house with different styles (Italianate small tower, crenellations to left wing etc) and levels.
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Matthew Beckett - The Country Seat |
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Earlier house (?) with mixed later additions - some look Victorian such as the slightly incongruous Italianate tower.
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Matthew Beckett - The Country Seat |
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Impressive Georgian house with one-storey attached pavilions.
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Matthew Beckett - The Country Seat |
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A classic Georgian pile with extensive service wings and gardens surrounded by parkland.
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Matthew Beckett - The Country Seat |
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Fabulous Gothic pile - most probably Victorian (shades of Alfred Waterhouse). Similar to Alton Towers and Eaton Hall, Cheshire and Worsley New Hall, Lancashire.
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Matthew Beckett - The Country Seat |
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Do have a look at the distinctive projecting circular bay window on the lower left of the house.
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Matthew Beckett - The Country Seat |
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