Sentences with phrase «of manor houses»

• Quadrat The restaurant is located in the former stables of the manor house with direct access to the lush garden.

Many of the manor house suites have sweeping views of the 18th century parkland and lakes.

Located in the heart of the manor house, your every luxury and comfort is taken into consideration.

Whilst the grandeur of the manor house is undeniable, all our guests become part of our longstanding history when they dine, stay or wed here, and they in turn ensure that the history and future of Langdon Court will prevail for years to come.

Don't be fooled by the picture of the manor house... that's just a small part of the complex.

Acting in proceedings before the First Tier Tribunal (Property Chamber) on a disputed application for title by adverse possession to land forming part of a manor house in Wiltshire.

Enjoy a classic film on a large outdoor screen with the spectacle of the manor house as the backdrop.

A manicured lawn to one side of the manor house has seating areas — perfect for admiring the view.

Not exact matches

Its houses were built in a range of architectural styles, from Tudors and Georgians to French colonial homes and English manors.

The Conservative grandee successfully claimed for the costs of hanging a chandelier in his main manor house.

The Daily Telegraph discloses how Tory grandees have received tens of thousands of pounds to maintain manor houses and stately homes.

One claimed successfully towards the cost of a full - time housekeeper with a salary package of # 14,000 a year, along with a claim including # 2,000 for clearing the moat surrounding his manor house.

Over 500 years old and regarded as one of the best preserved timber manor houses in the UK you can get lost in a world of local history when you choose this local dating in Gainsborough venue.

If you and your date have an interest in local architecture and also love the outdoors then appreciate the wonderful house and gardens of this spectacular 15th century manor house.

Discover Hotel Villa di Piazzano is a manor house built in the1400s in the countryside just outside the town of Cortona, between Tuscany and Umbria, offering luxurious

The last thing you need to do is be wearing high heels when you are walking around the grounds of a local manor house.

All four are seduced by the eccentricity and scope of Hill House, which, in real life is Harlaxton College, a 19th century British manor.

It's a nicely lit historical manor; most of the action is in the kitchen, where the grown daughter of the house Miss Julie (Saffron Burrows) has a steamy kitchen affair with John, the footman of the estate (Peter Mullen).

On the surface, Katherine (Florence Pugh), the young wife slowly being suffocated by her airless existence inside a country manor house in 1860s England, would seem to have little in common with the villainess of Shakespeare's classic play.

Directed by James Whale in between Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein, The Old Dark House (1932) injects a touch of camp and a jigger of sexual frankness into the gothic tropes of a creepy manor in a thunderstorm.

But Focus will need to make some nifty marketing moves to reach them; despite the age and appeal of the cast, the dialogue is often expressed in a kind of stylized formality, while art house touches like a scene backdropped by «Ave Maria» and an upper - crust manor setting can belie the film's quicker, looser rhythms.

Kubrick also insisted that Vitali maintain much of the director's Hertfordshire manor house, once even demanding that his sleep - deprived manservant (two hours a night was, apparently, not unusual) install CCTV cameras in every room, so that the whereabouts of an ageing family cat could be monitored.

The massive manor is continuously being rebuilt and / or expanded on Miss Winchester's orders, on the belief that the house serves as an asylum for the vengeful spirits of those who have been killed by Winchester rifles over the years.

Its twisting narrative of family mysteries, haunted Scottish manor houses, and the legacy of ancient Druidic rituals combine successfully to create an effective take on classic Gothic.

Days after the Alanis tour wrapped, the sessions moved to St. Catherine's Court, an enormous Elizabethan manor house in Bath, England — just a few turrets short of an actual castle — owned by the actress Jane Seymour.

Every now and then, one of the servants winds up the tinny Victrola or a motorcar pulls into the muddy courtyard, but for the most part, the manor house seems stuck in a purgatorial art - film whenever of governesses, peasants, and pénitents noirs who shuffle ominously through the countryside in their pointed black hoods.

Feast, about a doomed love affair in a manor house during the English Civil War, was bought as part of a time - unlimited two - book deal by Grove Atlantic's Morgan Entrekin years ago.

Mabel slips easily into this life of cocktails on the lawn of Trillium, the «manor house» occupied by Birch and Tilde.

While the moldering manor house is filled with decades - old detritus and an army of slightly feral cats, it is also a mausoleum of secrets, potentially lethal ones.

The manor, as Olga referred to the house and grounds that composed the estate, was a five - minute drive from the village, protected from the surrounding ugliness by the pines and oaks of a forêt domaniale.

On a trip through Wales more than a decade ago, the border town of Hay - on - Wye — where some 30 used bookstores live cheek by jowl — beckoned irresistibly, while on another U.K. trip, a book - loving friend and I tracked down an old manor house cum used bookstore in the middle of nowhere in, I think, Buckinghamshire, stuffed to its Victorian rafters with well - priced reading treasures (I have forgotten its name and exact location, and a Google search has come to naught, suggesting that this magical place is long gone — or perhaps only appears one day every hundred years like Brigadoon).

A few things that wouldn't have ended up in my new novel, The Wednesday Daughters, if I hadn't traveled to England while writing it: a blue cottage door; a snowbow arcing over Windermere (which in England, means the lake); a castle that isn't really a castle; a leather patch in a manor house wood floor; three waterfalls spilling into a single pool before flowing under a miniature bridge - house; a coffin road; a slipper tub not in the bathroom, but evocatively at the foot of a bed.

La Muse Writers» and Artists» Retreat offers one - week and three - week residencies year - round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in a 12th century manor house in the mountains of Languedoc, in southern France.

* Haunting Miss Trentwood is an English manor story; we don't leave the house so it became a feature of the cover.

When a man has secrets that compel him to a reclusive life, only a brooding manor house will do and with it, a ray of sunshine in the form of a lively woman who must break through his personal shadows to set him free.

In An Improper Arrangement, the first of the Little Season trilogy, I had the characters standing outside a country manor house, and I had to get them inside and get them talking.

She is at her wit's end when the dashing Lord Fitzherbert Frost, the current Earl of Houghton, appears as if by magic and comes to her rescue, saving her from yet another fortune hunter.Now paired with Lord Frost during a rather absurd treasure hunt through the manor house, Amelia must decide if she is willing to trade one night in the earl's bed for a lifetime of ruination.

Built in the style of a Spanish manor house, this 5 star hotel has all it takes for a wonderful holiday to come true.

The country's oldest wine estate not only has an historic manor house museum, but has recently designed a visitor route experience that includes entrance to the manor house, a tour of the Cloete cellar, and wine tasting.

Set in a former country manor house and surrounded by 47 acres of green gardens, rambling woodland and clean air, this is the quintessential countryside retreat.

Once a grain warehouse, the 83 - room Bienville House Hotel underwent a multimillion dollar transformation and emerged as a beautiful hotel with the feel of a historic manor hHouse Hotel underwent a multimillion dollar transformation and emerged as a beautiful hotel with the feel of a historic manor househouse.

Six Senses Douro Valley presents a superbly renovated 19th - century manor house set high on a hill overlooking the vine covered rolling hills of the Douro Valley and the river below.

It offers ancient towns with long histories, extravagant churches, bizarre conical - roofed trulli houses, fabulous masseria hotels which have been converted from traditional fortified manor houses and a great deal of Baroque splendour.

All the suites and rooms in the main building reflect the long and colourful history — Winston Churchill and Queen Elizabeth are just some of the visitors who have passed through the imposing entrance hall of the house which stands on the site of a 17th century manor.

Overlooking the Exe Estuary in Devon, this Georgian manor - house - turned - hotel is the vision of chef - owner Michael Caines, who weighed in on every decision from the layout of the three dining rooms to the coral and shell objets d'art on display.

It retains the air of a grand, carefully maintained manor house but its combination of family - friendly activities, diverse leisure facilities and unstuffy service make it the ideal location for a laid - back country break where there's plenty to occupy you on site and even more to explore on your doorstep.

A beautiful old manor house set under ancient jacaranda trees lies at the foot of a rugged koppie where, back in 1852, South Africa's first commercial mine opened.

On 23 September, 1878, Jules Leenhardt acquired the estate and manor house inspired by the «Montpellier Follies», which had been built in the heart of the unique grounds.

Declared an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), Cotswolds is simply pretty with its rolling hills, beautiful vegetation and stately manor houses.

Accommodation options are as diverse as the landscape — from a tented lodge set on a dramatic horseshoe bend of a dry Karoo ravine, to a manor house and lodge, there is something to suit everyone.