development near the house (i.e. the construction of new housing), to help fund the project. In the UK, vertical conversions can sometimes be sold with freehold title, but horizontal conversions (or a mixture) must be sold as leasehold, with apartment lessees holding shares in a company that owns the building and land's freehold. Houses List of country houses converted into apartments, by country, in chronological order by conversion dates. This excludes conversions into retirement homes, where the apartments are hotel-style, with communal dining and living rooms (e.g. the original Country Houses Association properties). England Uncertain date: Gledhow Hall, outside Leeds 1940s Brambridge House, Colden Common, Hampshire – 1944 to early 1950s into 14 flats, with stables converted into houses (house freehold owned since 2001 by the M25 Group, with plans to convert it into 9 flats by Cavendish & Gloucester Plc). Fishers Hill House, Hook Heath, Surrey – 1947 into 4 homes, more a villa than a country house, built in 1900–01 for the 2nd Earl of Balfour (brother of PM) by brother-in-law Sir Edwin Lutyens with gardens by Gertrude Jekyll. 1950s Kearsney Court, Dover, Kent – c1950 into 7 freehold properties, plus several new houses off the main drive. Westwood House, near Droitwich, Worcestershire – c1950s into 12 apartments, with lodges, stables, coach house and walled garden converted into homes. 1970s Yattendon Court, Berkshire – c1972, into 14 apartments (built c1926 for Edward Iliffe, 1st Baron Iliffe, with Lady Iliffe dying in 1972). Stedham Hall, Stedham, West Sussex – 1973, into apartments (unlisted house, enlarged from 1910). Wyke Hall, Gillingham, Dorset – 1973–76, into 10 freehold dwellings (marketed in Country Life magazine 4 April 1974 supplement page 16 for £18,000 – £28,000). Charlton Park, Wiltshire – 1975, into 19 apartments. Elston Hall, Elston, Nottinghamshire – from 1976, into 10 maisonettes. Hotham House, Hotham Park, Bognor Regis, West Sussex – From 1977 into several flats, then about 6 flats with leasehold of 125 years from 2008. Great Hyde Hall, Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire – 1978, into about 13 apartments, with around 9 in the stables, plus 5 semi-detached houses. Umberslade Hall, Tanworth in Arden, Warwickshire – 1978, into 12 apartments and 2 mews cottages. 1980s Gunton Hall, Norfolk – 1980 by Kit Martin, estate into 20 dwellings. Blakesware Manor, Widford, Hertfordshire – From 1980 (formerly a monastery) converted into 5 freehold homes. Hazells Hall, Bedfordshire – 1981–82 by Kit Martin, into 8