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Famous Fictional and Real Houses


Famous Houses I

  1. The White House - Washington, D.C.
  2. Graceland - home of Elvis Presley - Memphis, Tennessee
  3. Hill Top - Beatrix Potter wrote 13 of her 23 books there - Cumbria
  4. Blandings Castle - fictional location in the stories of P. G. Wodehouse
  5. Chartwell - home of Winston Churchill for over 40 years - country house in Kent
  6. Fallingwater - house designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1939 - Pennsylvania




  7. Number One Observatory Circle - official residence of the vice president of the United States
  8. Haworth Parsonage - Bronte family home in Yorkshire
  9. Manderley - fictional estate in the 1938 novel Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier
  10. Southfork Ranch - fictional home of the Ewing family in the Dallas television series
  11. Bateman's - Sussex home of Rudyard Kipling from 1902 until his death in 1936
  12. Dove Cottage - William Wordsworth's home from 1799 to 1808 in Grasmere in the Lake District
  13. Camp David - President's country residence - formerly known as "Shangri-La" but was renamed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower after his grandson
  14. Clarence House - home to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother from 1953 until 2002 - official residence of Charles, Prince of Wales
  15. Blenheim Palace - the seat of the Dukes of Marlborough - a country house in Woodstock, Oxfordshire - birthplace of Winston Churchill on 30 November 1874
  16. Chawton - Jane Austen
  17. Goldeneye - original name of novelist Ian Fleming's estate on Jamaica
  18. The Elysee Palace - official residence of the President of France
  19. Les Jolies Eaux - Princess Margaret's home on the island of Mustique
  20. Neverland Ranch - home of Michael Jackson
  21. Ponderosa Ranch - fictional home of the Cartwright family on television's Bonanza




Famous Houses II

  1. Chequers - the country house of the UK Prime Minister - Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
  2. Moominhouse - fictional house, where the Moomins live
  3. Highgrove House - Gloucestershire home of the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall
  4. Wayne Manor Estate - fictional residence of Bruce Wayne, who is Batman
  5. The Boathouse - poet Dylan Thomas lived with his family during his last 4 years between 1949 and 1953 - in Laugharne, West Wales
  6. Toad Hall - fictional home of Mr. Toad in the 'The Wind in the Willows' by Kenneth Grahame
  7. Dorneywood — official country residence of the UK Chancellor or Deputy Prime Minister
  8. Xanadu - fictional estate of Charles Foster Kane, in the film Citizen Kane
  9. Bagshot Park - Surrey residence of the Earl and Countess of Wessex
  10. Pemberley - fictional country estate owned by Fitzwilliam Darcy, in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
  11. Tara - fictional plantation in the film and book Gone with the Wind
  12. Gatcombe Park - Gloucestershire residence of Anne, Princess Royal



  13. Longleat - seat of the Marquesses of Bath
  14. The Playboy Mansion - former home of Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner until his death in 2017 - Los Angeles, California
  15. Hillsborough Castle - official residence for the Northern Ireland Secretary
  16. Windsor Castle - the Queen's official country residence - Windsor, Berkshire
  17. Bute House - official residence of the First Minister of Scotland.
  18. Downton Abbey - fictional seat of the Earl and Countess of Grantham, the Crawley family in the TV series of the same name - Highclere Castle in Hampshire is the actual location
  19. Balmoral Castle - Scottish holiday home to the Royal Family - Aberdeenshire
  20. Sandringham House - country house in Norfolk - one of the royal residences