A Royal Observatory Built for King George III in 1769 to Witness the Rare Passage of Venus Across the Sun
Commissioned during the Enlightenment, the King's Observatory in Richmond was part of a global effort to measure the solar system, one that also took Captain James Cook to Tahiti. After more than two centuries of scientific use, the Grade I-listed building is now a private residence, offered for £18 million.
A Country House Near London Built in the 1920s for an Industrialist Is Now for Sale for £10.5 Million
Just 15 miles from central London, Ripley Grange looks as though it has stood beside Epping Forest for centuries. In fact, the Tudor-style country house was built between 1928 and 1930 for industrialist Charles Frederick Clark, whose fortune came from carbon paper and typewriter ribbons.