Landmark Trust

The Landmark Trust

Status	Building conservation and preservation charity
Territory	Worldwide
Leadership	Peter Pearce
Founded	1965
HQ	Shottesbrooke, Berkshire, United Kingdom
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 gives them a new life by making them available for holiday rental. The Trust's headquarters is at Shottesbrooke in Berkshire.

Those who stay in "Landmarks" provide a continuing source of funds to support restoration costs and building maintenance. The trust currently has 190 properties, ranging from grand to modest in scale. Landmark sites include forts, farmhouses, manor houses, mills, cottages, castles, gatehouses, follies and towers. They represent historic periods from medieval to 20th century. Properties may be rented by the week or for three- or four-day stays throughout the year.

Most trust properties are scattered throughout 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 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.

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

Landmark Trust properties in the Channel Islands Nicolle Tower, St Clement, Jersey Fort Clonque, Alderney Landmark Trust properties in the UK Lundy Main article: 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 England The Trust operates the following properties in England: Abbey Gatehouse, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire Alton Station, Alton, Staffordshire The Ancient House, Clare, Suffolk Anderton House Appleton Water Tower, Sandringham, Norfolk Arra Venton, Cornwall 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, North Devon Brinkburn Mill, near Rothbury, Northumberland [1] 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, 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) Meikle Ascog, Isle of Bute 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 Landmark Trust properties in France La Célibataire, Le Moulin de la Tuilerie, Gif-sur-Yvette, Essonne Landmark Trust properties in Italy Casa Guidi, Florence Piazza di Spagna, Rome Sant'Antonio, Tivoli Villa Saraceno, Agugliaro Landmark Trust properties in the USA Amos Brown House[2] The Dutton Farmhouse Naulakha (Rudyard Kipling House) The Sugarhouse Landmark Trust 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. References

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 Woodsrpring 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.

External links

• Official website
• Photos from holidays in 3 Landmark Trust houses
• Photos of Landmark Trust properties on Flickr