Lights blazed in the big house and surrounding grounds.

During the 1850s, new plantations were established around the house, and exotic conifers were planted in the grounds.

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.

He and his life-long companion Stella were both in the habit of visiting, and Swift satirised the grounds which he considered too small for the size of the house.

His descendants, especially Nero, with his " Golden House " enlarged the house and grounds over and over until it took up the hill top.

Pembroke's enclosed grounds also house some particularly well-kept gardens, sporting a huge array of carefully selected vegetation.

Adorno's house on Seeheimer Strasse was similarly searched in July and his application for membership in the Reich Chamber of Literature was denied on the grounds that membership was limited to " persons who belong to the German nation by profound ties of character and blood.

Altham pointed out that for most of Grace's career, he played on pitches that " the modern schoolboy would consider unfit for a house match " and on grounds without boundaries where every hit including those " into the country " had to be run in full.

References to his son as " Pelops the Lydian " led some scholars to the conclusion that there would be good grounds for believing that he belonged to a primordial house of Lydia.

The public can now tour one such facility, intended to house the entire United States Congress, on the grounds of the Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.

Since 1974, and separated from auspices of the Naval Observatory, Number One Observatory Circle, a house situated in the grounds of the observatory ( formerly the residence of its superintendent, and later the home of the Chief of Naval Operations ), has been the official residence of the Vice President of the United States.

Renoir visited Beaulieu, Grasse, Saint Raphael and Cannes, before finally settling in Cagnes-sur-Mer in 1907, where he bought a farm in the hills and built a new house and workshop on the grounds.

The next test was on the 11th of September from the grounds of la Folie Titon, close to Réveillon's house.

The Foundation operates Monticello and its grounds as a house museum and educational institution.

In the present, a writer and an academic converge on the house: Hannah Jarvis, the writer, is investigating a hermit who once lived on the grounds ; Bernard Nightingale, a professor of literature, is investigating a mysterious chapter in the life of Byron.

The lab moved to its site on the hill above campus in 1940 as its machines ( specifically, the cyclotron ) became too big to house on the university grounds.

The Manor house used to film " The Curse of the Claw " was Rippingale House near Bourne, and its grounds and Vicarage.

Turner was also a frequent guest of George O ' Brien Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont at Petworth House in West Sussex and painted scenes that Egremont funded taken from the grounds of the house and of the Sussex countryside, including a view of the Chichester Canal.

The Lake Tahoe house and grounds portrayed in the film are Fleur du Lac, the summer estate of Henry J. Kaiser on the California side of the lake.

In 1982, the Supreme Court had struck down the one-house legislative veto, on separation of powers grounds and on grounds that the action by one house of Congress violated the Constitutional requirement of bicameralism.

Pinewood Studios was built on the estate of Heatherden Hall, which was a large, attractive Victorian house with spectacular grounds.

In a break from the past, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert allowed photographers and painters to capture their family in the grounds and in the house, partly for their own enjoyment and partly as a form of propaganda for the nation to show what a happy and devoted family they were.

References to his son and Niobe's brother as " Pelops the Lydian " led some scholars to the conclusion that there would be good grounds for believing that she belonged to a primordial house of Lydia.

Howerd lived for the last twenty or so years of his life in Wavering Down, a house in the village of Compton Bishop, Somerset under the Mendip Hills.

Accum held his first lecture on chemistry and mineralogy in a small room in his house on Old Compton Street.

* Gilberd ’ s in Exeter Road were endowed in 1538 by John Gilberd of Compton Castle to house lepers.

This rationale is used for both Compton Wynyates and English country house.

Compton Wynyates is a country house in Warwickshire, England, a Grade I listed building.

The Compton family, who still live today in this private house, appear in records as resident on the site as early as 1204.

The family continued to live in the manor house as knights and squires of the county until Sir Edmund Compton ( who died circa 1493 ) decided, circa 1481, to build a new family home.

Edmund Compton constructed the house of bricks which have a glowing raspberry colour of striking intensity.

A 19th century romaticised view of the gate house at Compton Wynyates.

As Compton Wynyates was now the minor family house, it tended to be the country home of the heir.

In 1835, the 2nd Marquess of Northampton ( the family had been elevated from Earls in 1812 ) visited Compton Wynyates for the first time and found the house in a ruinous state ; he made some minor renovations to prevent complete dereliction.

The house today remains essentially the mansion that Edmund Compton and his son William completed within a thirty year period during the reigns of the first two Tudor monarchs.

The 6th Marquess of Northampton ( 1885 – 1978 ) cared greatly for the house and spent a few months each year at Compton Wynyates.

This was achieved and the Marquess and his family returned to make Compton Wynyates their sole country house.

Harald Penrose ( 1904-1996 ), British test pilot and aviation author, lived in Nether Compton for more than 50 years in a house of his own design.

* Compton Place, Eastbourne, remodelled house ( 1726 – 29 )

The main part of the manor adjoins Winterbourne Abbas to the east and Compton Valence to the north, whilst the house itself adjoins Long Bredy.

Compton and Wilson each bought a share of the latter house in 1857.

She willed her furniture, stocks and bonds, personal savings, her house on Washington Avenue in Laurel and the farm " Lochlevlin " ( Loch Leven ) to their six children: Mary Barnes, John Henry Sothoron, Key, William Penn, Elizabeth S. Reese, and Barnes Compton.

The house was purchased by the Compton family from Castle Ashby and they had the house demolished.

Compton Castle is a fortified manor house in the village of Compton, about west of Torquay, Devon, England ().

One of Compton ’ s best known residents was the painter George Frederic Watts who lived at a house called " Limnerslease ", close to which the Watts Gallery, dedicated to his work, was built.