A flurry of house-building after 1700 concentrated in and around the newly laid Church Street, in the east end of Sunderland. This set of images,
Sunderland cottages are a distinctive local feature.
Although the Cavendishes divided their time between Derbyshire and London, they occupied rented houses until the 18th century, when the 2nd duke bu
Chatsworth was transformed in the 1680s from Sir William Cavendish's Elizabethan house with four tall ranges round a small courtyard into a fashion
William Senior's plan of Hardwick, c.1609, showing the two mansions and the surrounding park shortly after Bess had died.
Hardwick New Hall is famous as the home of the one of the most powerful women of the 16th century, Elizabeth countess of Shrewsbury, whose initials
The Old Hall at Hardwick survives only as a shell, with remnants of its plaster decoration.
New Bolsover, built in the early 1890s to house miners who came to work at Bolsover colliery, is one of the few examples in the Derbyshire coalfiel
The Little Castle was designed as a self-contained lodging for Sir Charles and his close family.
At his death in 1929 Sir John Plowright Houfton was described as 'a great public man' with a 'long and distinguished association with the Bolsover
