"manor" is a perfectly acceptable word in written English.
You can use it to describe a large, stately home or estate. For example: "The grand old manor house stood atop the hill, its majestic turrets gleaming against the sky."
I floated silently past all kinds of amazing riverside homes – old manor houses, tiny cottages, boathouses and mysterious creeks, and ogled, like a particularly inquisitive fish, at the secret riches of waterside life.
The Land Registry shows the premises on Chart Hill Road are owned by John Robert Fowler, who bought the main property - a mock Tudor manor called The Oast House, in October 1991, a number of nearby cottages, outbuildings and several acres of land.
The Peacock, Rowsley A chic manor house that would set you back the same again if it were in the Cotswolds.
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Though the novel begins in the plural, as "we" are summoned from the harvest by ominous smoke over the manor house, Walter quickly establishes his individual voice.
He came to the village in the service of Master Kent, who married the daughter of the manor 12 years ago; fell in love with a local; and has worked the land since.
Nestling against the walls of the original manor house is a stunning place to stay: the single-story Prior's Lodge.
Before the current Jacobean mansion replaced it, Blickling Hall was a medieval moated manor house, which came into the possession of the Boleyn family in 1437.
To everyone's surprise, he's moved off the hipster grid to Mayfair, to tiny Kitty Fisher's, rattling the fustiness of that manor with his bravura use of charcoal and a specially designed grill (based on the one at Spain's revered Asador Etxebarri) on ingredients such as beef from Galician milking cows.
6 rue des Remparts, Saint-Valéry-en-Caux, +33 2 3597 1122, lamaisondesgalets.com, doubles from €75 Rather than the typical Normandy half-timbered manor house, Hôtel des Iles resembles a house on the Hamptons, covered with grey wooden slats and a boardwalk terrace that looks right out on to the beach.
In recent weeks the former England central defender has appeared on the cover of Shooting Magazine in lord of the manor mode, bragging about the 30 birds he has shot over the past year.
