Author Archives: Castles of the Realm
Blue Ridge Parkway
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
Kinross House, Kinross-shire – Country Life
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. ** Subscribe to Country Life and get 50% off with our special offer Four years ago, Donald Fothergill came to Kinross House for the first time. He now … Continue reading
Expanded Georgian country house lays claim as the envy of North East office space | Bdaily
FAQs What is Bdaily? Bdaily is a regional business news website, covering content in the North East, North West, South East and Yorkshire. We deliver a daily email bulletin directly to your inbox, featuring the latest news and event listings in your area. On the site we have a main news section, where our journalists … Continue reading
Nine stunning country estates you can visit near Greater Manchester – Manchester Evening News
VIEW GALLERY 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 … Continue reading
Hedingham Castle revamp will make it a great venue for weddings and parties (From Gazette)
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 … Continue reading
Help rescue the real life Downton Abbeys this Easter with a day trip on your doorstep
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 … Continue reading
Who will defend the English country house? – Telegraph
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 … Continue reading
Supermodel Kate Moss Decorated a Luxe English Country House – Curbed
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 … Continue reading
Cate Blanchett Picks Up U.K. Country Estate | Variety
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 … Continue reading
Is this England’s most infamous country house hotel? – Telegraph
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