Eccentric Homes in England

This Tudor cottage is adorned with many canary-clasping cats, which originally served as a reminder to a local clergyman of his pet's murderous ways.

What started as a way to address damp basement walls turned into a house filled with intricate hand-carved designs.

A 19th-century British industrialist built this Louis XIII–inspired chateau for his homesick French wife.

A majestic mansion designed in Mughalai style, complete with a turquoise onion dome.

Putting the "mod" in "modular" since 2000.

Legends say that this Art Deco apartment building almost became Hitler's British headquarters.

The childhood home of Earth's alien chameleon is a humble Brixton flat.

Two women with a flair for both adventure and artful clutter created this singular round home.

This historic home of the author of Lawrence of Arabia, has a history of literary celebrities and monogrammed sleeping bags.

This home of a taxidermy hoarder is among the grandest and most singular of historic English estates.

This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.

This surreal art house looks like a geometric version of a small chapel.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

This remote castle was built to be a wealthy businessman's palace of vice but is now simply a historic vacation cottage.

An English artist has turned an unassuming ex-council house into a time-lost house of mystery.

Built by the patron saint of illusionists this Elizabethan manor house is riddled with secret cubbies for hiding priests.