Back on the market for $6.25M, this sprawling Gramercy Park apartment, complete with park key, was the residence of the building's owner/developer, which explains "Tudor castle" details like a limestone arch and casement windows, terra-cotta panels and brickwork.
In Ireland everyone needed a castle. Here we roundup our favourite castles in Ireland for a UK family break from Lismore, Ballybur, Ballyfin and Ballyportry.
Crawfordton House in the County of Dumfries is now on the market. With its castle-like appearance, the Scottish Baronial mansion house was run as an independent school in various guises between 1940 and 2006.
Medieval porn, poison gardens and the 21st-century peerage
A new book by designer David Mlinaric and photographer Derry Moore covers the history of English interior design from the sixteenth century to the present day, lingering on some of the great houses in the UK, from Chatsworth to Charleston.
In about 1300 Sir John de Broughton built his manor house in a sheltered site at the junction of three streams and surrounded it with a substantial moat. In 1406 it was "crenellated and embattled’, allowing the house to be called a castle. Over the years the castle was taken by the Royalists during the Civil War after a brief seige, and went through a series of ups and downs due to the squandering of family fortunes.
Architecture is meant to fulfill both practical and expressive requirements, and thus it serves both utilitarian and aesthetic purposes. When you look at a structure, you can distinguish these two ends but they cannot be separated, and the relative weight each of them carry can vary widely. Plus, every society has its own, unique relationship to the natural world and its architecture usually reflects that as well, allowing people from other places to learn about their environment, as well as history, ceremonies, artistic sensibility, and many aspects of daily life.
Curious about the beautiful paint colors (Magnolia Home/KILZ) in the castle renovation on Fixer Upper? You can use them in your home.
Elizabethan Manor house, situated in the unspoilt Suffolk countryside, within a beautiful 300 acre park.
Catriona Gray reveals the 20 most beautiful historic interiors in London, from Tudor dwellings to Modernist masterpieces
