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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 by carriage trails, which are frequented by hikers and horseback riders alike, and features lakes, gardens, and orchards.
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One of Britain’s most remarkable Classical country houses has undergone a major restoration at the hands of a new owner. Clive Aslet is impressed with the result.
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Four years ago, Donald Fothergill came to Kinross House for the first time. He now likens his first sight of it to an out-of-body experience. The house seemed to reach out and grab him. ‘It had found me,’ he says, with conviction.
In par… (View original article)
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You can’t beat a nice stroll through the grounds of a magnificent country estate or stately home.
And thankfully living in Greater Manchester we are blessed with a number of fantastic grand houses on our doorstep.
Whether it is deer spotting in rugged open grounds, walking through a well kept garden, or enjoying fine antiques inside a beautifully decorated house, there are plenty of estates you can visit.
Here are nine nearby.
1. Heat… (View original article)
A REVAMP of Hedingham Castle has left architects hopeful it will make the perfect party venue.
The castle has had new electricity and heating installed, which means the Keep can be used as a venue for weddings and functions.
Demetra Lindsay, the architect and owner of the castle, said: “It’s somewhere that will be more enjoyable to visitors who like to sit in the warm and stare at the extraordinary architecture.
“For the first time ever we have taken a… (View original article)
The HHA also represents big hitters in the historic homes game, from Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire with its 187 rooms, to the 16th-century manor house Ingatestone Hall where Elizabeth I stayed in 1561.
Port Eliot House in Saltash, Cornwall, has been lived in for more than 1,000 years, and is believed to be the oldest continually inhabited dwelling in the UK. The first written reference to it was in the fifth century; Benedictine monks lived there in AD 937; and Sir John Soane remode… (View original article)
Our English country houses survive thanks only to the private passion of their owners.
But how is the English country house actually doing today? Well, I don’t think for a moment that Binney is going to give much comfort tonight. I speak as the owner of an Elizabethan house, one that just about washes its face by being open to the public for tours and teas, when I say that we are under as great a threat today as we were back then.
Today, that threat … (View original article)
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British supermodel Kate Moss, whose left breast quite literally shaped a new champagne glass last year, has dipped back into the design realm in a much more orthodox way. Indeed, over on a 650-acre estate in England’s Cotswolds region, where Yoo, the architecture company started by property developer John Hitchcox and French designer Philippe Starck has staked out a luxe vacation home development, Moss recently made her interior design debut, decorating a five-bedroom country house now available for purchase for about $3.8M. Built from green oak and natural Cotswold stone, “The Barnhouse” has a traditional gabled profile, but inside, Moss gave it a thorough “retro glamour” style discernible with just one glance at the velvet sofas in the double-height living room… (View original article)
A digital missive from Flower Perfectbush, our real estate-obsessed operative on the ground in the U.K., let us know that preternaturally talented — and uncommonly comely — two-time Oscar winning Aussie actress Cate Blanchett and her playwright-director husband Andrew Upton are widely rumored in the British tabs to have shelled out somewhere around $4.5 million for Highwell House, a 13-plus acre country estate near Crowborough in the bucolic and heavily celebrified East Sussex area, about… (View original article)
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 palace, built by Charles Barry in the 1850s, was the milieu of the Cliveden set of the Twenties and Thirties and the Profumo Affair of the Sixties.
As a hotel, leased from the N… (View original article)