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Moore Place
Moore Place was a historic mansion in Surrey, England. It was known as the "gateway to Esher", the town in which it stood. The building's gate lodge, completed in 1905, is Grade II listed. Moore Place was listed in ''The'' ''Survey Gazetteer of the British Isles'' in 1914. History Built in the late 18th century or early 19th century, replacing a house which had been there since the Middle Ages, the mansion had a glasshouse and formal garden, along with a nine-hole golf course which was opened in 1926. Alfred Hayes was living at Moore Place in 1860. Edmund Henry Hayes was the occupant three years later. Lady Byron, widow of Lord Byron, lived at the mansion in the first half of the 19th century. In the 1920s, the building became a hotel and restaurant. It was later painted purple, which became a talking point. In 2004, Gordon Ramsay visited the restaurant in an early episode of ''Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares''. The restaurant had been recently purchased by Richard Hodgson a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A307 Road
A3, A03 or A.III may refer to: * A3 paper, a paper size defined by ISO 216 Biology * A3 regulatory sequence, a sequence for the insulin gene * Adenosine A3 receptor, a human gene * Annexin A3, a human gene * ATC code A03 ''Drugs for functional gastrointestinal disorders'', a subgroup of the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System * Brachydactyly type A3, a disease * British NVC community A3 (Spirodela polyrhiza - Hydrocharis morsus-ranae community), a British Isles plants community * Gibberellin A3, a plant hormone * HLA-A3, a Human MHC Serotype HLA-A * Subfamily A3, a rhodopsin-like receptors subfamily * Urea transporter A3, a trans-membrane protein Games * '' A3!'', a Japanese video game and multimedia franchise * A3 - Assault on the Aerie of the Slave Lords, a 1981 module for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game * Alpha Trion, as the former name of this character from the Transformers Series * Bird's Opening (A03), in chess, by the Encycl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esher
Esher ( ) is a town in the borough of Borough of Elmbridge, Elmbridge in Surrey, England, to the east of the River Mole, Surrey, River Mole. Esher is an outlying suburb of London, close to the London–Surrey border; with Esher Commons at its southern end, the town marks a southern limit of the Greater London Urban Area, Greater London Built-Up Area. Elevations range from 10m to 47m above ordnance datum, sea level. Esher has a linear settlement, linear commercial high street and is otherwise suburban in density, with varying elevations, few high rise buildings and very short sections of dual carriageway within the wards of the United Kingdom, ward itself. Esher covers a large area, between 13 and 15.4 miles southwest of Charing Cross. In the south it is bounded by the A3 Portsmouth Road which is of urban motorway standard and buffered by the Esher Commons. Esher is bisected by the A307 road, A307, historically the Portsmouth Road, which for approximately forms its high stre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surrey
Surrey () is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Greater London to the northeast, Kent to the east, East Sussex, East and West Sussex to the south, and Hampshire and Berkshire to the west. The largest settlement is Woking. The county has an area of and a population of 1,214,540. Much of the north of the county forms part of the Greater London Built-up Area, which includes the Suburb, suburbs within the M25 motorway as well as Woking (103,900), Guildford (77,057), and Leatherhead (32,522). The west of the county contains part of Farnborough/Aldershot built-up area, built-up area which includes Camberley, Farnham, and Frimley and which extends into Hampshire and Berkshire. The south of the county is rural, and its largest settlements are Horley (22,693) and Godalming (22,689). For Local government in England, local government purposes Surrey is a non-metropolitan county with eleven districts. The county historically includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gatekeeper's Lodge
A gatekeeper's lodge or gate lodge is a small, often decorative building, situated at the entrance to the Estate (land), estate of a mansion or country house. Originally intended as the office and accommodation for a gatekeeper who was employed by the landowner to control access to the property, they fell out of use in the early 20th century but surviving examples are often preserved and can sometimes be used as domestic housing. History Estate lodges originated from the gatehouses of medieval monasteries and manor houses. Timothy Mowl and Brian Earnshaw, in their study ''Trumpet at a Distant Gate: The Lodge as Prelude to the Country House'', cite the Porter's Lodge Tower at Denbigh Castle, and the lodge at New College, Oxford as antecedent examples. They became fashionable in the Georgian era along with English landscape garden, landscape gardens. Initially these lodges were functional wooden buildings, intended to retain livestock and deter intruders, but during the 18th cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Listed Building
In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural or historic interest deserving of special protection. Such buildings are placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Historic Environment Division of the Department for Communities in Northern Ireland. The classification schemes differ between England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland (see sections below). The term has also been used in the Republic of Ireland, where buildings are protected under the Planning and Development Act 2000, although the statutory term in Ireland is "Record of Protected Structures, protected structure". A listed building may not be demolished, extended, or altered without permission from the local planning authority, which typically consults the relevant central government agency. In England and Wales, a national amenity society must be notified of any work to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
