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The article offers information on the documents of Ramsbury Manor country house in Wiltshire archived at the Townshend Archive at Raynham Hall in Norfolk, England. The house was built by Sir William Jones who died in May 1682 before the completion of Ramsbury Manor. The surviving document mainly concerns the Manor of Aldbourne in Wiltshire, purchased by William Jones in April 1682. It also includes several paper relating to the post completion of the Ramsbury Manor house, which was considered to be one of the finest example of the medium-sized country house of the post-Restoration period.

The article examines the architectural history of the Blickling Hall, a Jacobean building, in Norfolk, England. It discusses various extensive building accounts from the Lothian papers in the Norfolk Record Office and surviving documents concerning the mansion's construction and personnel involve, such as the full summary drawn up by Richard Burton, the steward of Sir Henry Hobart, the first Baronet of the Blickling Hall. The architectural drawings of the house provided by the master craftsmen Robert Lying, which shows the design for a banqueting house in the east garden, and other documents which includes the total expenditures and service contracts are presented