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Sausmarez Manor, Guernsey

Sausmarez Manor Sausmarez Manor is a historic house in Saint Martin Parish on Guernsey. This is a house of many ages: parts date from the early 13th or late 12th centuries, but it has been altered, reduced and added to over the years with major changes in Tudor, Queen Anne, Regency and Victorian times. The frontage is regarded as the finest example of Queen Anne Colonial architecture in the British Isles, and which was built between 1714 and 1718 for Sir Edmund Andros, the 1st Governor of New York. The estate was bought back into the de Sausmarez family in 1748, from the bounty which captain Philip de Sausmarez won in the capture of the Nusetra Senora da Capa Donga, the world's richest treasure ship. (Read more)