manor house

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In the series, the Elizabethan manor house is the residence of TV presenter Declan O'Hara, played by Aidan Turner.

From BBC • May 13, 2026

We’re in the middle of nowhere in the north of England in an old manor house where her wedding was.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2026

Yeates, a 25-year-old landscape architect, had recently moved into an apartment in a converted manor house when she essentially vanished.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 31, 2025

In the lush countryside linking off radar Corrèze to the Lot region in Southwest France, almost hugging the banks of the Dordogne river, a striking 19th-century manor house recently underwent a dramatic reconstruction.

From New York Times • Mar. 28, 2024

Here he married, built a great manor house, fathered Antiphates and Mantios, commanders both, of whom Antiphates begot Oikleies and Oikleies the firebrand Amphiaraos.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer