City, village, court, palace, manor, mansion, residence, and domicile are French; but town, borough, hall, house, bower, room, and home are English.
Angela Ciffone, a broker with Coldwell Banker in Briarcliff Manor, said the residences would appeal to "people in high-powered positions".
A majestic beech tree towers over the stately Manor House, the Maazels' residence.
This deficiency was corrected in 1998, when the King's College, formerly of Belmar, New Jersey, and Briarcliff Manor, New York, took up residence in midtown Manhattan.
The play's vaguely tantalizing plot involves the suspicious past of the cryptic Miss Madrigal (Ms. Wilton), who takes up residence in a manor house ruled by the old and autocratic Mrs. St. Maugham (Margaret Tyzack) as the governess of Laurel (Felicity Jones), an extravagant fabulist who dabbles in pyromania.
The current fish house was built between 1322 and 1335 when Adam of Sodbury was the Abbot of Glastonbury who also built the Church of St Mary in the village and the Manor House as his summer residence.
Following the end of his Army career, Pinney took up residence at Racedown Manor, in the village of Broadwindsor, Dorset, where he lived the life of a retired country gentleman.
He is also known for his part in the lives of writers such as DH Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield and Aldous Huxley (he is the model for the painter, Gomauld, in the latter's Crome Yellow); as Lady Ottoline Morrell's artist-in-residence at Garsington Manor; and for a single, much-reproduced work of 1916: The Merry-Go-Round (currently hanging in Tate Britain).
Now Disney was edging into slightly darker waters with a mystery involving Americans who take up residence in an English manor house owned by Mrs. Aylwood (Davis).
