Historic House Museums

There are many museums around the UK based in houses. Many of these wonderful museums celebrate a particular person or a social issue and we have listed a small number of examples below. There are also museums and visitor attractions made up of complete towns or suburbs, very often the work of a singular visionary individual. Again, there is a selection of these listed below. However, the main focus on this page is on house museums whose emphasis is the design and presentation of houses and house that celebrate a particular period in architectural history.

House Museums

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  The Locksmith's House at the Black Country Living Museum recreates the home of the Hodson family of lock makers from a century ago [1]

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  Ordsall Hall, Salford is a formerly moated Tudor mansion, the oldest parts of which were built during the 15th century - http://www.salfordcommunityleisure.co.uk/culture/ordsall-hall

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  Dennis Severs House, London is an intimate portrait of the lives of a family of Huguenot silk-weavers from 1724 to the dawn of the 20th Century- http://www.dennissevershouse.co.uk/

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  Number 29, Dublin is a Georgian terraced House run by the National Museum of Ireland as a museum of Dublin home life for the period 1790 to 1820. http://www.numbertwentynine.ie

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  Pickford House, Derby - the family home of Georgian architect Joseph Pickford illustrating aspects of domestic life from the 18th to the 20th centuries http://www.derbymuseums.org/pickfords-house/

• File:The Georgian House, Bristol http://www.bristolmuseums.org.uk/georgian-house-museum/
• File:The Tudor House & Garden http://www.tudorhouseandgarden.co.uk
• File:The Regency Town House, Brighton http://www.rth.org.uk
• File:18 Stafford Terrace, London. http://www.rbkc.gov.uk/subsites/museums/18staffordterrace1.aspx
• File:Leighton House, London http://www.rbkc.gov.uk/subsites/museums/leightonhousemuseum1.aspx
• File:Mr Straw's House - Worksop http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/mr-straws-house/
• File:Emery Walker's House - http://emerywalker.org.uk/ The last surviving Arts & Crafts Interior
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  House for an Art Lover - a recent recreation of a previously unbuilt competition entry by Charles Rennie Macintosh http://bit.ly/2C5iI1b

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  78 Derngate - a Grade II* Georgian house in the Cultural Quarter of Northampton, remodelled by Charles Rennie Mackintosh in 1916.https://www.78derngate.org.uk/

• File:Sudley Victorian House, Liverpool http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/sudley/
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  2 Willow Road, Hampstead, London - t he only Modernist house in London that's open to the public and the former home of Trellick Tower architect Erno Goldfinger.,

Historic Towns & Villages

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  Weald & Down Museum, West Sussex http://www.wealddown.co.uk/

Historic Houses Commemorating People

At Chimni we are mainly focussed on house history, architecture and building styles, so our focus in this section is on house museums that celebrate and explain different periods of house building. However, dotted around the country are a series of wonderful house museums celebrating famous people and their work. We have listed some of our favourites below:

Sir John Soane Museum - http://www.soane.org/

Dickens Museum - https://dickensmuseum.com/

Dylan Thomas' Boat House http://www.dylanthomasboathouse.com/

Dr Jenner's House - http://www.jennermuseum.com/

Jane Austen's House - http://www.jane-austens-house-museum.org.uk/about/about.htm

The Brontë's Parsonage, Haworth, West Yorks. https://www.bronte.org.uk/about-us

Robert Burns House -http://www.burnsmuseum.org.uk/

Virginia Woolf's 'Monks House' - http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/monks-house/

Winston Churchill's 'Chartwell' http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/chartwell/

Benjamin Franklin House. http://www.benjaminfranklinhouse.org/site/sections/default.htm

JM Turner's House - Sandycome. http://turnershouse.org/

Oscar Wilde's House - 21 Westland Row, Dublin http://www.tcd.ie/OWC/history/westland.php

Dr Johnson's House - http://www.drjohnsonshouse.org/

John Milton's Cottage. http://www.miltonscottage.org

Darwin's home at Down House http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/home-of-charles-darwin-down-house/prices-and-opening-times

See Also In Chimni

Chimni Wiki Page: House History Books

Chimni Wiki Page: House History Projects

Chimni Wiki Page: House History Categorisation