Loose_Grip/Pete's photos with the keyword: house

Nostell Priory is a Palladian house in Nostell on the road to Doncaster from Wakefield. It dates from 1733 and was built for the Winn family on the site of a medieval priory. Today it is managed by the National Trust and open to the public. HBM to everybody. Have a great start to the last week of 2025!

Ightham Mote is a medieval moated manor house in Kent. In addition to the main house these buildings make a splendid sight. They are Mote Farm Cottages and Old Laundry cottage dating from the 16th century. Ightham Mote and its gardens are owned by the National Trust and are open to the public. HWW to everyone. Enjoy the day.

Elizabethan elegance on the banks of the river Avon between Warwick and Stratford. Another shot from our day trip to the National Trust's Charlecote Park.. HWW to everyone. Have a great day.,

This Edwardian semi-detached house and its contents have remained largely unchanged since the 1920s. William Straw moved to the town in 1886 with his brother Benjamin and the two siblings established a successful grocers shop at 130 Bridge Street. William married Florence Ann Winks in 1896 & moved into this house in 1923. After the death of her husband in 1932 Florence made few alterations to the house, as a Victorian woman in mourning this would have been expected of her and her contemporaries would have found nothing strange about her choice to keep his pipes by the fire and his collar box in the bedroom. When she died in 1939 her sons William and Walter lived in the house together, and their frugal way of living and make do and mend attitude resulted in the house largely avoiding modernisation. When William died he generously left his collection of around 30,000 everyday objects from furniture to vintage tins of food to the National Trust, along with his money. It opened to the public in 1993. Happy Wednesday Wall (& Staircase) to everybody. Have a great day.

Baddersley Clinton, the house, is beautiful and sits in a beautiful location surrounded by a moat, meadows and woodland. Founded in Saxon times it mainly dates from the 16th century with 17th century additions and was restored in the mid-20th. The National Trust took it on in 1980. HWW to everyone. Have a great day.

There are lots of fine wood-framed 19th century homes in the New Orleans Uptown area but back in 1977 some of them were in worse condition than others! With the hot & humid subtropical weather in this part of the world the undergrowth quickly takes over. HFF to everyone. Enjoy the weekend.

Anne Hathaway was William Shakespeare's wife and this was the house where she grew up. The earliest part of the house dates to 1463, when it was still a three-roomed building with only one floor; the higher part is 17th century, being built between April 1610 and October 1624. HWW to Everyone & a Happy New Year.

The formal garden at Hanbury Hall has been rebuilt by the National Trust. At Christmas each small tree has a bauble on top. HWW to everyone. Enjoy the day.

English Heritage are the custodians of the semi-ruined Elizabethan Kirby Hall near Corby although the building and gardens are still owned by the Earl of Winchilsea. Built as an Elizabethan country house in 1570 it was bandoned in the 1880s the house is now in a semi-ruined state. HWW to everybody. Have a great day.

HBM to everyone. Have a great start to the new week. English Heritage are the custodians of the semi-ruined Elizabethan Kirby Hall near Corby although the building and gardens are still owned by the Earl of Winchilsea. Wiki tells us:- One of the great Elizabethan houses of England, Kirby Hall was built for Sir Humphrey Stafford of Blatherwick. In 1575, Sir Christopher Hatton of Holdenby purchased the property, Hatton was Lord Chancellor to Queen Elizabeth I. It is a leading and early example of the Elizabethan prodigy house. Built as an Elizabethan country house in 1570, based on the designs in French architectural pattern books it was expanded in the Classical style over the course of the following decades. Abandoned in the 1880s the house is now in a semi-ruined state with many parts roof-less although the Great Hall and state rooms remain intact. The gardens, with their elaborate "cutwork" design, complete with statues and urns, have been recently restored.

General Aung San was instrumental in Burma/Myanmar's struggle for independence from British rule but he was assassinated just six months before his goal was realized. He is considered the founder of modern-day Myanmar. The Bogyoke Aung San Museum was the residence of Aung San and his family just before his assassination in July 1947. His better-known daughter Aung San Suu Kyi grew up here as a child. This is part of a beautiful circular wooden fence around a shady verandah overlooking the garden. HFF to everyone. Have a great weekend.

Another shot from our visit to Upton House & Gardens, a beautiful National Trust location. Plenty of walls to choose from! HWW to everyone. Enjoy the day.

In between the showers the sun did shine and I managed to get this shot of Belton House. Belton is a Grade I listed country house built between 1685 and 1687 by Sir John Brownlow & cared for today by the National Trust. HBM to everyone. Enjoy the start to the new week.

Another visit to The National Trust's only house in Leicestershire! Stoneywell was built by Earnest Gimson for his brother, a Leicester industrialist, as a summer holiday home in the late 1890s. It was built in the Arts & Crafts tradition and style with much of the original furniture hand-made by Barnsley. In keeping with the back-to-nature style it was built over an outcrop of volcanic rock but of course this means the house is damp.

Window dressing in the seed store. The National Trust house and gardens at Calke Abbey near Derby.

The National Trust house and gardens at Calke Abbey near Derby. The seed store by the walled gardens.

The National Trust house and gardens at Calke Abbey near Derby in the warm late afternoon light. Calke Abbey stands on the site of a medieval religious house dissolved by Henry VIII in 1538. After passing through several hands, Richard Wendsley acquired Calke, eventually selling the estate in 1585 to Robert Bainbridge. His son sold the estate to Henry Harpur in 1622 for £5,350. It stayed in the Harpur family until the National Trust began caring for it in 1985. HFF everybody & have a great weekend.

Calke Abbey was owned by the Harpur family for nearly 300 years until it was passed to the National Trust in 1985 in lieu of death duties. Today, the house is open to the public and many of its rooms are deliberately displayed in the state of decline in which the house was acquired. HFF and have a peaceful weekend.