The nucleus of the estate was a small farm of, called Cartleyhole, nicknamed Clarty ( i. e., muddy ) Hole, and was bought by Scott on the lapse of his lease ( 1811 ) of the neighbouring house of Ashestiel.

Balmoral Castle is a large estate house in Royal Deeside, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Soon after the estate was purchased the existing house was found to be too small.

A tower house was built on the estate by the Gordons.

Major additions to the old house were considered in 1849, but by then negotiations were underway to purchase the estate from the trustees of the deceased Earl Fife.

If a house or car is above a certain value, the bankrupt can buy the interest back from the estate in order to keep the asset.

It was built in 1850 as a shooting lodge and was part of the Hesleyside estate ( Hesleyside house is situated in the North Tyne valley near Bellingham ).

The estate and surrounding grounds are open to the public, upholding Henry's stepdaughter Katherine's wish to use the house and property for " educational, civic, social and recreational purposes.

( The house John is buying is in a " good neighborhood ," but market values have been rising quite a lot lately and the real estate market analysts in the media are talking about a slow-down and higher interest rates.

The city of Oslo bought the Ekely estate from his heirs in 1946 and demolished his house in May 1960.

After his house in Môtiers was stoned on the night of 6 September 1765, Rousseau took refuge in Great Britain with Hume, who found lodgings for him at a friend's country estate in Wootton in Staffordshire.

Hoover bequeathed his estate to Tolson, who moved into the house.

Colonel Joseph Hawkesworth, responsible for the implementation of the slighting, acquired the estate for himself and converted Leicester's gatehouse into a house ; part of the base court was turned into a farm and many of the remaining buildings were stripped for their raw materials.

As with peasant plots, the demesne was not a single territorial unit, but consisted rather of a central house with neighbouring land and estate buildings, plus strips dispersed through the manor alongside free and villein ones: in addition, the lord might lease free tenements belonging to neighbouring manors, as well as holding other manors some distance away to provide a greater range of produce.

Petrarch's will ( dated April 4, 1370 ) leaves 50 florins to Boccaccio " to buy a warm winter dressing gown "; various legacies ( a horse, a silver cup, a lute, a Madonna ) to his brother and his friends ; his house in Vaucluse to its caretaker ; for his soul, and for the poor ; and the bulk of his estate to his son-in-law, Francescuolo da Brossano, who is to give half of it to " the person to whom, as he knows, I wish it to go "; presumably his daughter, Francesca, Brossano's wife.

He made an estate and built a house in 1798.

An open house viewing of the estate drew many Taiwanese expatriates.

The Savoyes returned to their estate after the war, but, no longer in position to live as they had done before the war, they abandoned the house again shortly after.

In his book Rude Kids: The Inside Story of Viz, the comic's creator Chris Donald claimed that the first legal action ever taken against Viz was initiated by a man who objected to the use of a picture of his house ( taken from an estate agent's catalogue ) in one of these photo-strips, and that the British tabloid newspaper Sunday Mirror tried to provoke media outrage over another photo-strip which, if taken out of context, could be misconstrued as making light of the problem of illegal drugs being offered to children.

The estate has over 4. 65 hectares of garden and parkland for exploring and relaxing, and the house has been restored to reflect life during King's era.

He built a house on a estate in Dunellen, New Jersey, and moved there in 1872.

* October 6 – Ian Brady, a 27-year-old stock clerk from Hyde in Cheshire, is arrested for allegedly hacking to death ( with a hatchet ) 17-year-old apprentice electrician Edward Evans at a house on the Hattersley housing estate.

The poet Thomas Tickell owned a house and small estate in Glasnevin and, in 1790, they were sold to the Irish Parliament and given to the Royal Dublin Society for them to establish Ireland's first botanic gardens.

The house was built in the middle of the 19th century as a family home for John Tollemache, a wealthy Cheshire landowner, estate manager, and Member of Parliament.

Domain names are often seen in analogy to real estate in that ( 1 ) domain names are foundations on which a website ( like a house or commercial building ) can be built and ( 2 ) the highest " quality " domain names, like sought-after real estate, tend to carry significant value, usually due to their online brand-building potential, use in advertising, search engine optimization, and many other criteria.

They might kill him in his sleep, thinking there was money in the house.

And there was a house ; ;

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

When he regained consciousness he was in Lord's house, in the office of Doctor Lord, the deputy's deceased father.

From the back of the barn it was a simple matter to reach Black's house without using the street.

It was certain now that Jess was in the house, but also, presumably, was Stacey Black.

Setting a course straight for the house, he was covering ground fast when an angry bee buzzed past close to his face.

Whoever was out there hiding in the brushy cover was besieging the Antler house and, having spotted his approach, was determined to drive him off before he could get into the fight.

What Joyce wanted me to do was go to Thor's house and `` do whatever detectives do '', and get her clothes -- and handbag containing her identification.

Back in the house a hoodlum named Red Buck, sore because Billy had been allowed to leave unscathed, jumped from a bunk and swore he was going after him to kill him right then.

Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.

He proudly wore the blue livery of her house, for the girl was Madame Delphine Lalaurie, wife of the prominent surgeon, Dr. Louis Lalaurie, who bore one of the South's oldest and most cherished names.

So Dandy Brandon trustingly entered the house with Delphine Lalaurie and trudged up the rear steps to the attic room which was to be his new home.

Dr. Lalaurie and I didn't even know he was in the house until the night of our ball when he came down the stairs ''.

She designed and supervised the building of the Harbert, Michigan, house, most of which was constructed by one local carpenter who carried the heavy beams singly upon his shoulder.

She was certain now that it would be no harder to bear her child here in such pleasant surroundings than at home in the big white house in Haverhill.

The favorite guest of the house, as far as the staff was concerned, was Mr. Wrigley, the chewing gum king.

it was another to house, feed, and train them.

Victor's book on John Lloyd Stephens was largely written in my study in the house at Weston.

He said he was a friend of Heywood Broun who had run a free employment bureau for several months during the depression, but the generous Broun to whom I wrote did not know his name and I somehow conceived the morbid notion that the man in question was prowling round the house.