Landmark Trust

The Landmark Trust

Formation	1965
Legal status	Building conservation and preservation charity
Headquarters	Shottesbrooke, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Region served	Predominantly UK
Director	Dr Anna Keay
Website	www.landmarktrust.org.uk

The Landmark Trust is a British building conservation charity, founded in 1965 by Sir John and Lady Smith, that rescues buildings of historic interest or architectural merit and then makes them available for holiday rental. The Trust's headquarters is at Shottesbrooke in Berkshire.

Most trust properties are in England, Scotland and Wales. Some are on Lundy Island off the coast of north Devon, operated under lease from the National Trust. In continental Europe there are Landmark sites in Belgium, France and Italy. Four properties are in the United States—all in Vermont—one of which, Naulakha, was the home of Rudyard Kipling in the 1890s. The American sites are owned by an independent sister charity Landmark Trust USA. There is also an Irish Landmark Trust.^[1]

Those who rent "Landmarks" provide a source of funds to support restoration costs and building maintenance. The trust has 190 properties,^[2] of varying sizes. Landmark sites include forts, farmhouses, manor houses, mills, cottages, castles, gatehouses, follies and towers and represent historic periods from medieval to 20th century.

The following lists aim to be complete and illustrate both the variety of structures and geographical spread of the trust.

Properties in the Channel Islands

Fort Clonque, Alderney

Jetty and harbour, Lundy

The Old Light, Lundy

St.Helena's Church, Lundy

Alton Station, Staffordshire

Appleton Water Tower, Norfolk

Gurney Manor, Somerset

Manor Farm, Norfolk

Marshall Wade's House, Bath

Morpeth Castle, Northumberland

The Pigsty, North Yorkshire

Stogursey Castle, Somerset

Tixall Gatehouse, Staffordshire

Woodspring Priory, Somerset

Castle of Park, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland

The Dunmore Pineapple, Falkirk, Scotland

Clytha Castle, Monmouthshire, Wales

The Spanish Steps, seen from Piazza di Spagna, Italy. John Keats lived in the house in the right foreground.

• Nicolle Tower, St Clement, Jersey
• Fort Clonque, Alderney

Properties in the United Kingdom

England

Lundy

The Landmark Trust manages the Island of Lundy in the Bristol Channel on behalf of the National Trust and operates a number of holiday cottages there. The properties on Lundy managed by the Trust include:

• The Barn
• Bramble Villa East
• Bramble Villa West
• Castle and Keep Cottages
• Government House
• Hanmers
• Millcombe House
• The Old House
• The Old Light
• The Old School
• Tibbets

The Trust operates the following properties in other parts of England:

• Abbey Gatehouse, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire
• Alton Station, Alton, Staffordshire
• The Ancient House, Clare, Suffolk
• Anderton House
• Appleton Water Tower, Sandringham, Norfolk
• Arra Venton, Cornwall
• Astley Castle, Warwickshire (Winner of the 2013 Stirling Prize)
• The Banqueting House, Gibside, Tyne and Wear
• The Bath House, Walton, Warwickshire
• The Bath Tower
• Beamsley Hospital, Beamsley near Skipton, North Yorkshire
• Beckford's Tower, Bath, Somerset
• Bridge Cottage, Peppercombe, North Devon
• Brinkburn Mill, near Rothbury, Northumberland
• Bromfield Priory Gatehouse
• Calverley Old Hall, West Yorkshire
• The Captain's House, Cornwall
• Causeway House
• Cavendish Hall, Suffolk
• Cawood Castle, North Yorkshire
• The Chapel, Lettaford, Devon
• The Chateau, Lincolnshire
• Church Cottage
• Clavell Tower
• Cloth Fair, Smithfield, London
• The College
• Coombe
  • Carpenters Shop
  • Chapel Cottage
  • Coombe Corner
  • Ford Cottage
  • Hawkers Cottages
  • Mill House
• The Coop House, Carlisle
• The Cottage, New Inn, Suffolk
• Cowside, North Yorkshire
• Crownhill Fort, Plymouth, Devon
• Culloden Tower, Richmond, North Yorkshire
• The Danescombe Mine
• The East Banqueting House, Gloucestershire
• Edale Mill
• The Egyptian House, Chapel Street, Penzance, Cornwall
• Elton House
• Endsleigh Cottage, Devon
  • Pond Cottage
  • Swiss Cottage
• Field House
• Fox Hall
• Frenchman's Creek
• Freston Tower
• Goddards
• The Gothic Temple, Stowe, Buckinghamshire
• The Grammar School, Kirby Hill, North Yorkshire
• The Grange, Ramsgate, Kent
• Gurney Manor, Cannington, Somerset
• Hampton Court
• The Hill House
• Hole Cottage
• Houghton West Lodge
• The House of Correction
• Howthwaite, Grasmere
• Ingestre Pavilion, Tixall, Staffordshire
• Iron Bridge House
• Kingswear Castle
• Knowle Hill
• Langley Gatehouse, near Acton Burnell, Shropshire
• Laughton Place, near Lewes, East Sussex
• Lettaford
• The Library
• Lock Cottage
• Lower Porthmeor
• Luttrell's Tower
• Lynch Lodge
• Maesyronen Chapel
• Manor Farm, in Diss, Norfolk
• Margells
• Marshal Wade's House
• Martello Tower, Aldeburgh, Suffolk
• Methwold Old Vicarage, Methwold, Norfolk
• Monkton Old Hall
• Morpeth Castle, Morpeth, Northumberland
• The Music Room, Lancaster, Lancashire
• New Inn, Peasenhall, Suffolk
• North Street, Derbyshire
• Obriss Farm
• East Banqueting House
• West Banqueting House
• Old Campden House, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire
• The Old Hall, Croscombe, Somerset
• The Old Parsonage
• The Parish House, Baltonsborough, Somerset
• Paxton's Tower Lodge
• Peake's House
• Peppercombe (Landmark Trust)
• Peters Tower
• The Pigsty
• Poultry Cottage
• The Priest's House, Holcombe Rogus, Devon
• Princelet Street, Spitalfields, London
• The Prospect Tower
• Purton Green
• Robin Hood's Hut, Halswell, Goathurst nr Bridgwater, Somerset
• The Ruin, Hackfall, Grewelthorpe, North Yorkshire
• Sackville House, East Grinstead, West Sussex
• Shelwick Court, near Hereford, Herefordshire
• Silverton Park stables, Devon
• South Street, Great Torrington, Devon
• St Mary's Lane
• St Winifred's Well
• Shute Gatehouse
• The Steward's House
• Stockwell Farm
• Stogursey Castle, Stogursey, Somerset
• Swarkestone Pavilion
• Tangy Mill
• Tixall Gatehouse
• The Tower, Canons Ashby
• Tower Hill
• Warden Abbey, Old Warden, Bedfordshire
• The Wardrobe
• The West Blockhouse
• The White House, Aston Munslow, Shropshire
• Whiteford Temple
• Wilmington Priory, near Eastbourne, East Sussex
• Wolveton Gatehouse
• Wortham Manor, Lifton, Devon
• Woodsford Castle, near Dorchester, Dorset
• Woodspring Priory, near Weston-super-Mare, Somerset

Scotland

• Ascog House, Isle of Bute
• Auchinleck House
• Cul na Shee, Argyll and Bute
• Dunmore Pineapple, near Falkirk
• Gargunnock House, Stirling
• The Mackintosh Building Comrie (not to be confused with Hill House, where the Landmark Trust has an apartment)
• Old Place of Monrieth, Portwilliam, Dumfries and Galloway
• Castle of Park, Glenluce, Dumfries and Galloway
• Collegehill House and Rosslyn Castle, Roslin, near Edinburgh
• Saddell

Wales

• Bath Tower, Caernarfon, Gwynedd
• Clytha Castle, Monmouthshire
• Dolbelydr
• West Blockhouse, Dale, Pembrokeshire
• Church Cottage, Llandygwydd, Ceredigion
• Rhiwddolion, Betws-y-Coed, Gwynedd
• Plas Uchaf

Properties in France

• La Célibataire, Le Moulin de la Tuilerie, Gif-sur-Yvette, Essonne

Properties in Italy

• Casa Guidi, Florence
• Piazza di Spagna, Rome
• Sant'Antonio, Tivoli
• Villa Saraceno, Agugliaro

Properties in the USA

• Amos Brown House
• The Dutton Farmhouse
• Naulakha (Rudyard Kipling House)
• The Sugarhouse

Archives

The Landmark Trust Lundy Island Philatelic Archive was donated to the British Library Philatelic Collections in 1991 and is located at the British Library.^[3]

References

1. ↑ "Irish Landmark". Retrieved 1 July 2012. 
2. ↑ "The Handbook - History to Discover". The Landmark Trust. Retrieved 1 June 2009. 
3. ↑ Philatelic Research at the British Library by David Beech

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Landmark Trust properties.

• Official website
• Photos of Landmark Trust properties on Flickr