The car-parking of Grizedale Forest Visitors Centre is situated on the site of a former house pulled down in what year?
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Grizedale Forest Grizedale Forest is a 24.47 km² area of woodland in the Lake District of North West England, located to the east of Coniston Water and to the south of Hawkshead. It is made up of a number of hills, small tarns and the settlements of Grizedale and Satterthwaite. It is managed by the Forestry Commission and is a popular tourist destination with waymarked footpaths, mountain biking, an aerial assault course, a 16-bed hostel, and a visitor centre with a children's playground, education centre, café and shop. The car-parking of Grizedale Forest Visitors Centre is situated on the site of the former Grizedale Hall where its remains can be still seen. The forest is also used for two annual rallies: the Malcolm Wilson Rally and the Grizedale Stages Rally, based in Coniston.
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Grizedale Hall Grizedale Hall was a large country house at Grizedale, Hawkshead, in the Lake District in Cumbria, England. After two earlier Grizedale Halls had preceded, it was built anew in 1905 in the style of Gothic Revival architecture. During World War II it became No 1 Prisoner-of-war camp to hold German officers and was finally pulled down in 1957.
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Baddiley Hall Baddiley Hall is a country house in the settlement of Baddiley in Cheshire, England. Previously there was a half-timbered house on the site, but this had been replaced by the current house before the death of its owner, Sir Henry Mainwaring, in 1797. It is constructed in brown brick with a tiled roof, and has an L-shaped plan. Its architectural style is Georgian. The house is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building. Figueirdo and Treuherz comment that it is "a modest Georgian brick manor house, hardly more than a farmhouse".
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Sutton Park, Yorkshire Sutton Park is an 18th-century Georgian country house situated on the edge of the village of Sutton-on-the-Forest, North Yorkshire, England. It is approximately 10 miles north of York, in the ancient Forest of Galtres. The house, a Grade I listed building, is open to the public for part of the year and is the residence of Sir Reginald Sheffield, 8th Baronet (father of the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron's wife Samantha Cameron), and Lady Sheffield.
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Westwood House Westwood House is a stately home, near Droitwich, Worcestershire, England. It has been subdivided into twelve self-contained apartments. The house has origins as an Elizabethan banqueting hall with Caroline additions and is a Grade I listed building. It was for several centuries the seat of the Pakington family. Situated west of Droitwich, it lies in the centre of its former estate, Westwood Park, which is Grade II listed in the National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.
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Carnatic Hall Carnatic Hall was an 18th century mansion that was located in Mossley Hill, Liverpool, England. Built in 1779 for shipbuilder Peter Baker it was later purchased in 1947 by The University of Liverpool as a hall of residence for students. In 1964 the mansion was demolished and replaced with the now Carnatic Halls of Residence.
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Glasshayes Glasshayes House is a historic country house in Lyndhurst, in The New Forest, Hampshire. Used in the 20th century as the "Grand Hotel", then the "Lyndhurst Park Hotel", it exists today in the form of a 1912 redesign by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The building and estate was purchased in 2014 by developers and is now scheduled for demolition.
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Woodside National Historic Site Woodside National Historic Site is the childhood home of former Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. King resided there from 1886 to 1893. The house is located in the city of Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Built in 1853, the house has been restored to reflect the Victorian era. The 11.5 acre site includes wooded grounds, gardens, and lawn. A video presentation is shown about the King family and Woodside. Victorian period programs and special events are offered.
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Affeton Castle Affeton Castle is a converted late-medieval gatehouse near East Worlington, Devon, England. It was formerly part of the destroyed fortified manor house of Affeton, situated on the side of a valley of the Little Dart River. Built in 1434, the surrounding house was destroyed in the English Civil War of the 1640s, and by the early 19th century the gatehouse was in ruins. It was restored between 1868-9 by Sir George Stucley, 1st Baronet for use as a shooting-box; in 1956, it was converted to form the private home of Sir Dennis Stucley, 5th Baronet. The castle, approximately 60 feet (18 m) by 22 feet (6.7 m) in size, is protected as a Grade II* listed building.
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Holme Hall, Cliviger Holme Hall (or The Holme) was a Grade II* listed ruined manor house near Burnley, in Lancashire, England. The house dates back to at least the 15th century, was rebuilt in the 17th century, and extended in 1854. Between 1985 and 2003 it was used as a retirement home. The structure was devastated by an arson attack in 2004 and is currently awaiting redevelopment into flats.
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Powerscourt Estate Powerscourt Estate (Irish: "Eastát Chúirt an Phaoraigh" ), located in Enniskerry, County Wicklow, Ireland, is a large country estate which is noted for its house and landscaped gardens, today occupying 19 hectares (47 acres). The house, originally a 13th-century castle, was extensively altered during the 18th century by German architect Richard Cassels, starting in 1731 and finishing in 1741. A fire in 1974 left the house lying as a shell until it was renovated in 1996.
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Avon House, Bristol The former Avon House is an 18-storey building, one of the tallest structures in central Bristol, England. It was built speculatively and used initially by the former Avon County Council from 1973. When that body was abolished in 1996 the building was used by Bristol City Council staff for a number of years before the building became redundant. It has since been converted into a hotel.
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Red House Museum Red House Museum was a historic house museum, built in 1660 and renovated in the Georgian era. It closed to the public at the end of 2016 but remains as a Grade II* listed building in Gomersal, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England.
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Shibden Hall Shibden Hall is a Grade II* listed historic house located in a public park at Shibden, West Yorkshire, England. The building has been extensively modified from its original design by generations of residents, although its Tudor half-timbered frontage remains its most recognisable feature.
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Goldsborough Hall Goldsborough Hall is a Jacobean stately home located in the village of Goldsborough, North Yorkshire, England. It is a member of the Historic Houses Association. The house itself is a Grade II* listed building. The current Hall was built for Sir Richard Hutton (1560–1639) after he acquired the Goldsborough Estate in 1598. The original building still stands and is occupied as a private family home that is not open to the public. The Hall is available for bed and breakfast guest accommodation or exclusive hire for weddings and private functions.
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Mount Stewart Mount Stewart is a 19th-century house and garden in County Down, Northern Ireland, owned by the National Trust. Situated on the east shore of Strangford Lough, a few miles outside the town of Newtownards and near Greyabbey, it was the Irish seat of the Vane-Tempest-Stewart family, Marquesses of Londonderry. The house and its contents reflect the history of the Vane-Tempest-Stewart family, who played a leading role in British and Irish social and political life.
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Eastcote House Gardens Eastcote House Gardens is an area of public parkland in Eastcote, within the London Borough of Hillingdon. The site covers 3.63 ha and incorporates the walled garden, dovecote and coach house of Eastcote House. The house was demolished in 1964 by the Ruislip-Northwood Urban District Council (RNUDC), the predecessor of the London Borough of Hillingdon. At the public's request, the garden and outbuildings were retained and are now maintained by a group of volunteers, the Friends of Eastcote House Gardens, in partnership with the local authority.
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Old Oak and Wormholt The Old Oak and Wormholt estates are London County Council cottage estates constructed between 1912 and 1928. They were declared a conservation area in May 1980.
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Saint George Palace The Saint George Palace (French: Palais Saint-Georges) is an historic building in the city of Rennes. Formerly an abbey residence, it was built in 1670 to replace a much older abbey building that stood on the same site. The Benedictine Abbey of Saint George ("Abbaye Saint-Georges de Rennes") was forced to close in 1792 during the French Revolution and the property was seized by the government. Since 1930 the building has been listed as a "monument historique" of France.
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Stillfried Castle Stillfried Castle (Polish: "Zamek Stillfriedów") - the former residence of the aristocratic Stillfried family, whose members were barons, built at the end of the 14th century, however the earliest record of the castle comes from 1352. The castle was burned down by the Hussites. The residence was expanded into a castle in 1536-1550, 1593, 1633–1645 and 1675–1677, during the ownership of the Stillfrieds. The current square formation was built in between 1700 and 1730 to the design of the famous Italian architect Andrea Carove. During which the tower was deconstructed. The castle was largely reconstructed in 1796; when the castle's defences and nearby living quarters were deconstructed. The castle changed owners up until 1819, when the residence was used as an Evangelist rectory up until 1868. Since the 1880s, the castle was used as the headquarters of the KWK (Polish: "Kopalnia węgla kamiennego"); after 1945 the castle was used as its directory in between 1954 and 1975 for the Nowa Ruda Powiat. Up until 2001, the castle was housed the, HMO. When since 2004 the castle became private.
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Walton Hall, West Yorkshire Walton Hall is a stately home in the county of West Yorkshire, England, near Wakefield. It was built in the Palladian style in 1767 on an island within a 26 acre lake, on the site of a former moated medieval hall. It was the ancestral home of the naturalist and traveller Charles Waterton, who made Walton Hall into the world's first wildfowl and nature reserve. Waterton's son, Edmund, sold the estate.
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Philipps House Philipps House (until 1916 Dinton House) is an early nineteenth-century Neo-Grecian country house at Dinton, near Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. The house was built in 1816 by William Wyndham to the designs of Sir Jeffry Wyatville, replacing a 17th-century house. In 1916 the estate was bought by Bertram Philipps, who renamed the house after himself, then in 1943 gave the house and grounds to the National Trust. The house and its parlkand (known as Dinton Park) are Grade II* listed.