English mansion floor plan

The Vyne is a 16th-century estate and country house outside Sherborne St John near Basingstoke in Hampshire, England. It is a Grade I listed building. The Vyne holds an inscribed Roman ring as well as a lead tablet that speaks of a curse on the one who stole it. J. R. R. Tolkien was asked to comment on it as an expert on Anglo-Saxon history, including its connection to a mine fabled to have been dug by dwarves, and a few days after began writing Lord of the Rings

'Shoremond', the Ormond Gerald Smith estate designed by Hoppin & Koen c. 1910 on Centre Island. The 12 bedroom estate consisted of almost a mile of waterfront on the Long Island Sound. Smith was the president of Street and Smith Publications Inc. which produced such magazines as Popular, Top Notch, Ainslee's and Picture Play. His obituary says his firm printed more than 3,600 titles since their inception. The estate had two subsequent owners before it was demolished in the 1940s. Click HERE…

Watson House Floor Plan