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Summer with Landmark
To find out more about any of our buildings, please contact our Booking Office.
A place to talk and eat together
Devon
This Grade II listed quadrangular stable block was commissioned in the mid 19th century by the 4th Earl of Egremont. Set within an historic parkland, and built around a sunny courtyard, it is a welcoming and evocative place.
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Kintyre, Argyll and Bute
Saddell House presides at the centre of the bay, a handsome seat built in 1774. It is typical Scottish laird's house of its period, with generously proportioned rooms and large light windows. It remains today an eminently sensible house, close enough to an outdoors life but a comfortable haven from the elements when needed.
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Shropshire
This house belonged to the Stedmans, who had lived here from soon after 1300 in a nearly unbroken line. The old trusses of their hall can still be seen in the roof space while the rooms below are part Tudor and part Jacobean. It stands on the south side of Wenlock Edge, and the garden runs down the hill in front, with long views of Corvedale towards Ludlow, capital of the Marches.
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London E1
This building is typical of the speculative housing that sprang up in Spitalfields in the 18th century for French silk weavers (Hugenots) and wealthy merchants. Today Princelet Street is a quiet street in an area of London that is bustling with cafes and markets including nearby Brick Lane.
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Ayrshire
Auchinleck House was built between 1755 and 1760 by Alexander Boswell, 8th Laird of Auchinleck and the father of James Boswell, the celebrated diarist and biographer of Samuel Johnson. It is one of the finest examples of an eighteenth-century country villa to survive in Scotland. The house has a magnificent library looking across to Arran and beautiful grounds.
Discover a new area of Britain
Shropshire
This Jacobean building is made up of two distinct faces: one, formerly presented to the outside world but now looking on to a working farm is of plain dressed stone. The other, which once looked inwards at Langley Hall (demolished by 1880), is timber-framed in the best local tradition. Views from the main window are down a valley to the Wrekin, and historic Shrewsbury and the stunning Long Mynd are all within easy distance.
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London EC1
45a Cloth Fair is a fine Georgian house facing the churchyard of St Bartholomew the Great in the historic City of London and next door to the one time home of Sir John Betjeman. It is an oasis of relative calm in central London, especially at weekends and yet is within a mile's walk of St Paul's Cathedral and the River Thames.
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Somerset
The Parish House was built in about 1500, on the edge of a churchyard. There is a fine view of the fifteenth century church from the main rooms of the house. The living accommodation with its wonderful open arch-braced roof is on the first floor. It offers the perfect base from which to explore Glastonbury.
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Shropshire
Set within the Ironbridge Museum, Ironbridge House has spectacular views of the river, the bridge and the steep woods beyond. It is a wonderful place to be, with coal smoke drifting against the trees, and the sun glittering on the rather muddy Severn as it flows inexhaustibly beneath Abraham Darby's iron arch. All around, in Coalport, Ironbridge and Coalbrookedale, are the remains of industry's beginning.
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Caernarfon
One of the towers of the medieval town wall facing the Menai Strait. Its two great windows look along the outside of the town wall in one direction and across the Strait in the other. Here you can have your cake and eat it - the sea at your feet, and the pleasures of an interesting town behind you.
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North Yorkshire
A stone-roofed building on Kirby Hill's village green, The Grammer School was built in 1556 and remained a school until 1957. We were given a long lease by the Trust that owns the school and we have turned the Tudor lodgings of the master into a Landmark. One particularly fine bedroom looks over the churchyard and on to the surrounding countryside. It has an atmosphere of ancient peace, abetted by the church clock with its tranquilizing strike.
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Bath
Beckford's Tower, dating from the mid 1820's, was built in the Picturesque manner, combining elements of Greek Revival and Tuscan vernacular. Its eccentric and flamboyant builder was William Beckford who became somewhat of a recluse in later life. One can relax in the lavishly decorated Scarlet Drawing Room or enjoy the fine views of Bath from the belvedere 154 feet high.
History to live in
Lettaford, Devon
Sanders is a near perfect Dartmoor long-house of about 1500. It is situated in the hamlet of Lettaford on the fringes of Dartmoor, and the self-contained resourceful life of an upland people goes on around you as it always has; and the world contracts to Dartmoor's limits, beyond which only the adventurous go.
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Bedfordshire
Keeper's Cottage is tucked away in the pinewoods and ferns at the foot of the warren on the Shuttleworth estate. It is a model gamekeeper's establishment as might have been found in a nineteenth-century pattern book, in the tradition of the orne but in a sturdily handsome way.
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Cromford, Derbyshire
North Street was built in 1771 by Richard Arkwright to house his mill workers. It is the earliest piece of planned industrial housing in the world and lies at the heart of a designated World Heritage Site.
Special places for two
Tewkesbury
Known as the 'lodging over the great gate', this grand building of about 1500, restored in 1849 is close to the beautiful Tewkesbury Abbey which it guards. A perfect location from which to enjoy the abbey church and exceptional town of Tewskesbury.
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Warwickshire
Lengthsman's Cottage, dating from about 1812, was built for the 'lengthsman' who maintained not just the lock but also the stretch of canal to the next lock. With its barrel-roof, this snug cottage is a rare survivor of its type on the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal, and with the towpath, lock and small road bridge provides a complete assemblage of the canal builder's art. This is a sociable spot where you can sit and contemplate the talents of those Regency engineers and reflect upon one of the few interruptions in the canal's passing through gentle Warwickshire.
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Warwickshire
The Bath House, Warwickshire was designed in 1748 to reap the supposed medical benefits of cold water bathing. While the bath chamber is designed with the rough masonry of Antiquity, its upper room, the main living space, is lavishly decorated with shells.
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Kent
Lord Harris built this handsome flint tower in the grounds of Belmont Park in 1808 as his “Whim”. It was used as a banqueting house and then as a cricket pavilion. Its design is typical of the Picturesque garden buildings illustrated in the architectural pattern books of the day, without which no gentleman's property was complete.
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Devon
Peters Tower was built by a local landowner in memory of his wife and looks across the broad estuary of the Exe to the green fields beyond. It is a short walk from the railway station in the large and pleasant village of Lympstone.
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West Sussex
Fox Hall built as a hunting lodge by the 2nd Duke of Richmond for the once famous Charlton Hunt, was a meeting place for the fashionable set of the eighteenth century. The Palladian simplicity of its brick exterior belies the exhuberant decoration of the upstairs sitting room, and with the Duke's bed nestling in a gilded alcove, it makes an elegant bedsit.
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Alwalton, Cambridgeshire
Lynch Lodge is the fine two-storey Jacobean porch from the Dryden's house at Chesterton. It was brought to its present location when the house was demolished in 1807. Alwalton lies on the River Nene, and a few hundred yards from the Great North Road, and has a quiet open village street and a cul-de-sac ending in a patch of green, on which stands the Lodge.
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Rhiwddolion, Gwynedd
Ty Uchaf stands at the head of the valley, in the lee of woods rich in mosses and lichens, and looking across sheep pastures. The remote and tranquil Rhiwddolion was formerly a slate quarrying community, now silent except for the sheep and the water, and has views far down the valley to Betws-y-coed.
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Lincolnshire
The Château, built in 1747 as a weekend retreat by a wealthy lawyer, is an ornamental garden building with a French flavour. Designed by a Yorkshire architect, who was just 19 at the time, it stands in parkland with fine views towards towards the River Trent.
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Clare, Suffolk
A picturesque medieval timber-framed building with elaborate pargeting, a distinctive form of vernacular architecture in East Anglia, that bears the date '1473'. Situated in an unspoilt market town, this house incorporates a handsome moulded timber ceiling and elaborately carved oriel windows.
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Shropshire
This small cottage was originally a medieval well chapel and has been venerated for centuries. It is dedicated to Saint Winifred, who was a seventh-century Welsh Princess, and is still visited by pilgrims today. On the edge of a hamlet and approachable only by public footpath, the little building is the medieval well chapel and sits above the innermost of three pools. Once here, acceptance of the miraculous is easy.
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To find out more about any of our buildings, please contact our Booking Office.
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Thinking of holidaying in Britain this summer? Book a Landmark for a truly British experience staying in a piece of our country's history. Each building has its own story to tell.
Silverton Park Stables
The White House
Princelet Street 
Auchinleck House
Langley Gatehouse
45a Cloth Fair
Parish House
Iron Bridge House
Bath Tower
The Grammar School
Beckford's Tower
Sanders
Keeper's Cottage
North Street
Abbey Gatehouse
Lengthsman's Cottage
The Bath House
The Prospect Tower
Peters Tower 
Fox Hall
Lynch Lodge
Ty Uchaf
The Château
The Ancient House
St Winifred's Well
