Samuel Greg’s Quarry Bank Mill enterprise was in the right place at the right time to become a major player in the story of cotton in England.
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Judith Dunn traces the history of a magnificent Tudor manor house in the heart of Cheshire back to the Domesday Book and beyond…
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Ghosts in the Hunter Valley? They say spirits haunt some of the lovely old homes and buildings that dot the pretty towns and countryside of this beautiful region, including the National Trust’s historic Tomago House, five kilometres from Raymond Terrace.
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Apsley House stands on Piccadilly, close to Hyde Park Corner. Built in 1771-8, it was one of only three London houses designed and decorated by Robert Adam at a cost of 10,000 pounds. The client was the Lord Chancellor, Lord Apsley. Known as No 1 London, it was the first house travellers encountered, a five-bay red brick building with a large entrance hall and a colonnaded central staircase.
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In 1697, intrepid traveller Celia Fiennes described Newby Hall as ‘the finest house I saw in Yorkshire’. Judith Dunn takes a tour of that house, now wonderfully restored.
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You probably wouldn’t expect to find an exhibition of stunning, world-class antique clocks tucked away in North Adelaide, but thanks to the David Roche Foundation that’s exactly what’s happened…
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Anyone who enjoys exploring unusual museums might be interested in a real gem – the Pioneer Women’s Hut, nestled in the heritage Glenroy Reserve on the western edge of the Snowy Mountains in NSW.
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Every day, gorgeous items from the Australiana Fund collection are sat on, used, looked at or held, because whilst it might be the collective showcase for one of the most interesting collections in the nation, it’s also a working collection.
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The structure that became Traquair House already existed in 1107, Alexander I of Scotland signed a royal charter there, establishing a precedent that saw the property used by a long line of Scottish kings as a base. It’s believed to be the oldest contInually occupIed house In the whole of Scotland,
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Harper’s Mansion survives as one of the best examples of an Australian middle-class home of the 1830s, but its builder was the only son of William Harper and Margaret Morgan, both of whom were convicts. We know William was convicted at the Old Bailey in London in 1799 of stealing two horses but we do not know Margaret’s crime …
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The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture calls Sir John Soane’s Museum ‘one of the most complex, intricate, and ingenious series of interiors ever conceived.’ The man who created it all has been described as a discriminating collector with the hoarding mentality of a pack rat and a horror of an empty space…
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William Greenlaw was a Scottish farmer’s son who made good in colonial Melbourne. After working his way through the ranks to become General Manager of the Colonial Bank of Australasia, in the early 1880s with his wife Anna Maria he threw caution to the winds and rebuilt their modest house into the two-storey Italianate mansion named Villa Alba.
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The ultimate peaceful tree change location, an ideal ‘work from home’ setting and a showplace of recycling… it could be a modern couple’s dream, but it was the reality for Joan and Daryl Lindsay at Mulberry Hill in 1925.
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The word ‘beaulieu’ means ‘beautiful place’ and Beaulieu’s Palace House lives up to its name. A combination of medieval Gothic, 18th century fortification styles and Victorian Gothic, Palace House has its origins in the Cistercian monks of the 13th century.
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Linnwood, built in 1891, was once described as ‘being one of the most perfectly finished domestic establishments in the Southern Hemisphere – a home that is just a dream of every convenience and comfort’.
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Cooma Cottage, on the Yass River just east of the town of Yass, was the home of the famous Australian explorer Hamilton Hume (1797-1873). It is now one of the oldest surviving rural houses in southern New South Wales.
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When Horace Walpole began work on the property of Strawberry Hill in 1749, he wrote to a friend that: ‘I am going to build a little Gothick (sic) castle at Strawberry Hill … A small capricious house built to please my own taste.’ It’s fair to assume that Walpole’s interpretation of a ‘small capricious house’ was not universal…
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The Curzon family is one of the oldest of the English aristocracy, having arrived with William the Conqueror in 1066. Their name is derived from Notre-Dame-de-Courson in Normandy and they have owned the Kedleston estate in Derbyshire since 1297.
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The home of the Dukes of Bedford for nearly 400 years is steeped in a vast history. But it’s not just the antique furniture and stunning art collection that are the attractions; many of the previous residents of Woburn have very interesting pasts.
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Thomas Chippendale’s home town of Otley, Harewood House and Leeds City Museum (both nearby) are among many celebrating the 300th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Chippendale. Ivor Hughes previews the lead exhibition.
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Ivor Hughes explores the family home that inspired the creativity of Arts & Crafts legend William Morris.
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Yorkshire in the UK has numerous boxes to be ticked by visitors: York Minster (cathedral), the stately homes of Harewood House and Castle Howard, and the Brontë family’s Haworth Parsonage are among the must-sees. But less publicised venues can be just as fascinating. East Riddlesden Hall is one such jigsaw puzzle with more pieces than most.
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