British manor house floor plans

Ground Floor (open links in new tab/window for full size) Ground Floor First Floor Second Floor Influences & Inspirations Great Hall at Hatfield House Charlecote Park Montacute House Old Plans & Renders The renders aren't very good, I couldn't get the roofs and dormers on third floor to stay on, the chimneys are missing, as are a lot of the windows; but it gives you an idea of the mass and scale. Even Older Plans & Renders Ground Floor (Complete showing courtyard and chapel) Ground Floor…

I found a reference to The Gentleman’s House: Or, How to Plan English Residences, from the Parsonage to the Palace; with Tables of Accomodation and Cost, and a Series of Selected Plans by Robert Kerr and published in 1865 when I was preparing an excerpt from Scribner’s Magazine on floor plans from old houses in NYC. … Continue reading "Victorian Kitchens, Sculleries, Larders and Pastry Rooms"

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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.

Borley Rectory was a house that gained infamy as "the most haunted house in England" after being described as such by psychic researcher Harry Price. Built in 1862 to house the rector of the parish of Borley and his family, it was badly damaged by fire in 1939 and demolished in 1944.

Greenwich | British History Online Plan of Charlton House 17th C? Not a lot of bedrooms, but dressing room, bath room and wardrobe room in vicinity.