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  • The builder of the manor house is a direct ancestor of the present owner.
  • They would press on well into dusk, when spunkie lights rose from the hedgerows and swales and danced in the ground-mists, until they reached a suitable castle or large manor house, whose resident windvoice had received advance notice from the Royal Alchymist of the king’s imminent arrival. Conqueror's Moon
  • In the 14th Century a manor house was built on the site and it became a mansion in the 1800s.
  • But this was more the manor house style. The Sun
  • It is in a walled garden next to Sion Hill Hall, an elegant manor house built in 1912 by the York architect Walter H Brierley.
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  • On the south side of the manor house, he planted a large alpine meadow with masses of scillas, daffodils, anemomes and fritillarias.
  • When the original hall was built, it was itself a departure from the medieval style of mansion and was the first manor house in the county made of brick and stone.
  • By 1522, the manor house at Ightenhill, although standing, was in a ruinous condition.
  • The villa consisted of extensive grounds, a manor house and outbuildings.
  • Voice over Border Oak builds around 30 timber framed homes a year from manor houses to small cottages.
  • Treven Hall had been an Elizabethan, half-timbered manor house.
  • Inside, antiques, family paintings and period furniture enhance the elegance and character inherent in this finely proportioned manor house.
  • The manor house where Orwell, a declared socialist, was forced to recuperate during one of his lung hemorrhages is among the island's most patrician -- bone-white, with many fluted chimneys, its own boat dock and a tamed lawn as sweeping as the playing fields of Eton, Eric Blair's alma mater. Literary Pilgrimages: George Orwell
  • The manor house and a group of older cottages are still there, part of a collection of beautiful things that makes La Sagesse special.
  • It even had a name, set in wrought iron letters above the closed-in driveway doors: "Casona de Tzintzuntzan", "the manor house in the place where the hummingbirds gather". Renovating our Morelia house
  • It features a 10,000-square-foot brick and yellowwood manor house, with 12 bedroom suites. Most Expensive Homes In The...
  • It is a medieval manor house. Times, Sunday Times
  • Here is our pick of the manor houses that are for sale today. Times, Sunday Times
  • Theirs was the best house in the village after the manor house. Times, Sunday Times
  • The family took up temporary residence in the manor house.
  • My room had been the parlor of an ancient manor house before the Occupation.
  • The event will be held in the grounds of the manor house.
  • Voice over Border Oak builds around 30 timber framed homes a year from manor houses to small cottages.
  • The peeling frescoes that ornament the living room of a manor house are all that remain to suggest its colonial grandeur.
  • The builder of the manor house is a direct ancestor of the present owner.
  • Melbray was a large manor house just outside town, now owned by a syndicate. DEATH SPEAKS SOFTLY
  • The road meandered down to the pond, lined by birches on either side, to the manor house, which stood to the left of and slightly behind the house as one approached it.
  • It reminds one of those commemorative busts associated with Caesar's and Augustus's Rome, or of a statue made for a niche in a European manor house.
  • My mother and me, we lived in an old tumbledown manor house overlooking the Bay. THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
  • The Jacobean manor house is crumbling rapidly having lost its roof and now even its walls are in danger of falling.
  • Home for the week can all be a superb holiday home or one of the to ten in luxury apartments sleeping up manor house. The Sun
  • The 12 rooms are in an old stone manor house, the bar and restaurant in a converted barn. Times, Sunday Times
  • Close at the heels of his messenger came Cecil Barker, our friend of the moated Manor House. Chennai
  • Visible earthworks include roads, a fishpond, the foundation of a manor house, and 30 peasant houses set out in regular rows.
  • The manor house loomed large in the distance, a shadow in the sky to block the stars.
  • Today's manor houses may not be homes to a lord, and neighbours may not be swearing allegiance in return for protection. Times, Sunday Times
  • Wolffer threw a bash in their Italianate manor house, the moon and scudding clouds appearing on cue over the vineyard. Erica Abeel: Cinema, Buzz and Champagne in the Hamptons
  • Most manor houses are steeped in history that is relatively straightforward, and rewarding, to trace. Times, Sunday Times
  • Agecroft Hall, a Tudor manor house, was shipped to the United States piece by piece and now draws 20,000 visitors each year.
  • Melbray was a large manor house just outside town, now owned by a syndicate. DEATH SPEAKS SOFTLY
  • We are in a converted manor house that serves as a luxury hotel but the clubhouse is a short buggy ride away. Times, Sunday Times
  • This appeared to carry water ducted from the hills north of the site, where North Farm now stands, to either the village or the manor house.
  • The builder of the manor house is a direct ancestor of the present owner.
  • I was actually sheltered during a heavy rainstorm in a stone manor house belonging to a buccaneer.
  • UPSIDE Its country manor house feel. Times, Sunday Times
  • Medieval descriptions of manor houses are rare and usually brief, but there is a wealth of later material.
  • Amanda would ride with everybody else and I would follow on foot, in a sopping-wet parka and gumboots, counting the minutes until we could go inside the big old manor house and have tea and chocolate digestives by the fire. The English American
  • Melbray was a large manor house just outside town, now owned by a syndicate. DEATH SPEAKS SOFTLY
  • They bought a decaying 16th-century manor house and restored it to its original splendour.
  • Keep calm, carry on and buy a manor house. Times, Sunday Times
  • Most manor houses are steeped in history that is relatively straightforward, and rewarding, to trace. Times, Sunday Times
  • The local manor house is set on fire. Times, Sunday Times
  • Speke Hall, LiverpoolBuilt in stages throughout the 16th century, this timber-framed manor house was the home of the Catholic Norris family, and is filled with priest holes, eavesdrops and everything the secret papist needs.2. Five of the best Elizabethan merchant houses
  • This appeared to carry water ducted from the hills north of the site, where North Farm now stands, to either the village or the manor house.
  • It is the quintessence of a gabled Cotswold stone manor house. Times, Sunday Times
  • Here may be seen the effigy of Sir Richard Brydges, the first owner of the Manor House (or "pratie lodge") which succeeded the castle. Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter
  • Today's manor houses may not be homes to a lord, and neighbours may not be swearing allegiance in return for protection. Times, Sunday Times
  • The first is an architectural fantasy built in the early 1900s to resemble a medieval manor house. Times, Sunday Times
  • Smith's version in The Old Manor House plays with this expectation by transferring the typical heroine's flightiness and love - sickness to the protagonist, even as it also satirizes his virtues as a romance hero.
  • Before the first shaft was sunk in 1900, the only buildings on this sweep of coast were an ancient manor house and its barns.
  • The Environment Agency tested the water in Manor House Gardens pond and found oxygen levels to be well above safe levels.
  • The rolling green hills of the Cotswolds, dotted with manor houses, chocolate-box villages and bustling market towns, have always been popular with upmarket buyers.
  • Bletchley was quite inspiring: a lovely old manor house surrounded by some rackety and decrepit WWII-era huts, with some brick buildings as well.
  • For the interior alterations and additions to the manor house, Robinson turned to several architects, firstly George Devey.
  • A manor house was a very visible show of a person's wealth.
  • Rooms in the manor house will be grander still when they are finished in the spring. Times, Sunday Times
  • Less exposed are two manor houses in splendid settings. Times, Sunday Times
  • Some of its more prestigious venues have included a manor house in Castle Combe.
  • During one of these tutorial sessions, Pip gets the notion to visit Manor House again; his alleged reason is to thank Miss Havisham but his more probable desire is to see Estella again.
  • Meanwhile, Seb tied the reins of his horse to the back of the cart before sprinting towards the manor house.
  • She'd have started as a skivvy in a manor house like this when she was about twelve. WEEKEND FOR MURDER
  • The 1918 manor house, which has nearly 22,000 square feet and features a carriage house, walk-in vault and a koi pond, played a key part in Ms. Helmsley's federal tax-evasion conviction. Big Discount on Helmsley Sale
  • The builder of the manor house is a direct ancestor of the present owner.
  • The 12 rooms are in an old stone manor house, the bar and restaurant in a converted barn. Times, Sunday Times
  • When Pawson first visited the site five years ago, it comprised a derelict Baroque manor house with ranges of agricultural buildings that framed a large courtyard.
  • The manor house was surrounded by rolling hills.
  • In the past, the country manor house welcomed gentry for deer hunting.
  • The bare bones were always impressive: at the heart of the complex is a former manor house set in 160 acres of woodland. Times, Sunday Times
  • In 1502 the manor house was sold to Sir Henry Clifford, of Skipton Castle.
  • Yuletide "wassail", can be derived from his having "powlert up and down" in a county abounding with comfortable manor houses and cosy inns. Dickens-Land
  • In the middle of Northstead was a conical mound with the ruins of a stone building, said by some historians to have been the Manor House, by others to have been a magazine.
  • It seems that a ha-ha has been banked up to hide the public thoroughfare from which one turns down the private avenue of limes to approach the manor house.
  • Manor houses with extensive outhouses and grounds cost €450,000 to €600,000.
  • They are also seeking a green light on an application to build new boundary walls, garden walls, entrance gates and gateposts at The Manor House they bought for £3 million two years ago.
  • The builder of the manor house is a direct ancestor of the present owner.
  • Rooms in the manor house will be grander still when they are finished in the spring. Times, Sunday Times
  • Keep calm, carry on and buy a manor house. Times, Sunday Times
  • Here is our pick of the manor houses that are for sale today. Times, Sunday Times
  • Just a few miles away from Woolacombe stands Arlington Court, a Georgian manor house set in acres of rolling Devonshire parkland.
  • Home for the week can all be a superb holiday home or one of the to ten in luxury apartments sleeping up manor house. The Sun
  • Today's manor houses may not be homes to a lord, and neighbours may not be swearing allegiance in return for protection. Times, Sunday Times
  • If the grand old manor house is anything to go by we are in for a pleasant surprise.
  • And Aelfric in his turn was a younger son, and foolishly accepted service in the manor household when his elder had family enough to run his yardland without him. Monk's Hood
  • The field was once part of a terrace of the Whitton Dene manor house and it seems that the trouble began when it was filled in with material to even it out.
  • The family took up temporary residence in the manor house.
  • With a Royce you will be accepted, or at least tolerated, by the sniffiest grandee - and for considerably less than a duckpond, let alone a manor house. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
  • It resembled a five-story, refurbished manor house with umber bricks and large turrets.
  • The manor house and Ferriby Hall are still extant and remind one of the former grandeur of the High Street.
  • When the club moved to its present grounds in the 1930s, large trees were cleared by the local cricket team from the centre of what was at the time the private grounds of Manor House.
  • A two-bedroom home in a converted manor house with communal grounds that include lawns and woodland. Times, Sunday Times
  • Theirs was the best house in the village after the manor house. Times, Sunday Times
  • But this was more the manor house style. The Sun
  • The bare bones were always impressive: at the heart of the complex is a former manor house set in 160 acres of woodland. Times, Sunday Times
  • The local manor house is set on fire. Times, Sunday Times
  • A listed 300-year-old country manor house surrounded by woods and fields. The Sun
  • The first is an architectural fantasy built in the early 1900s to resemble a medieval manor house. Times, Sunday Times
  • Less exposed are two manor houses in splendid settings. Times, Sunday Times
  • A manor house dating from before 1150 is Britain's oldest continually occupied house, it was claimed today.
  • A patrol gathered before a grand old manor house on the grounds.
  • UPSIDE Its country manor house feel. Times, Sunday Times
  • She'd have started as a skivvy in a manor house like this when she was about twelve. WEEKEND FOR MURDER
  • It is a medieval manor house. Times, Sunday Times
  • My mother and me, we lived in an old tumbledown manor house overlooking the Bay. THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
  • Elizabeth Manor House, thatched cottages, farm and craft buildings.
  • The ghost of a hanged poacher is said to haunt the manor house.
  • Smith creates a ‘money plot’ and centers the novel's love story of Orlando and Monimia around the Manor House, Rayland Hall, as inheritable property.
  • Following the voice's directions, we manoeuvred our way out of the cul de sac, found the shop, bought potatoes, apples and cider, and resumed our quest for a particular manor house. Country diary: Wigborough, Somerset
  • Money for the estate and a derelict manor house will come from the Millennium Fund, the EU and direct government funds.
  • Rabbits who have taken up residence on the remains of a 14th century manor house in England are digging up fragments of a medieval glass window.
  • The route skirts the Folk Museum for a free peek at the ye-olde shops, the heather thatch and the splendid cruck style manor house that was reassembled here.
  • When the original hall was built, it was itself a departure from the medieval style of mansion and was the first manor house in the county made of brick and stone.
  • A 14th century manor house situated in Samlesbury, a small township on the south bank of the River Ribble, Samlesbury Hall is well worth a visit if only for its historical interest.
  • THE BEATEN-UP RED car crunched up the driveway and came to a halt outside an English manor house.
  • They bought a decaying 16th-century manor house and restored it to its original splendour.
  • Three centuries had flowed past the old Manor House, centu - ries of births and of homecomings, of country dances and of the meetings of fox hunters. Chennai
  • By the time the towers of his parents' manor house appeared, the rider leading the way had begun to cough.
  • Less exposed are two manor houses in splendid settings. Times, Sunday Times
  • The castle, which had always had a significant residential function, declined in military value to become a palace, château, or manor house, while forts and bastioned town walls took its place in warfare.
  • A listed 300-year-old country manor house surrounded by woods and fields. The Sun
  • The manor house was sold to the Rutsons, a family of Liverpool merchants, in 1839, but they mainly lived elsewhere.
  • Construction of the moated manor house was begun in 1450, to a familiar medieval technique – an oak timber frame resting on stone footings, filled in with wattle and daub. The Renaissance in Britain: examples from the era
  • The builder of the manor house is a direct ancestor of the present owner.
  • The peeling frescoes that ornament the living room of a manor house are all that remain to suggest its colonial grandeur.
  • The administrative centre of the manor was the manor house.

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