property sales

Ripley Castle for Sale-1st time in 700 years

Jul 1, 2024

battles, buildings, genealogy, religion

Bosworth, Carthusian Monastery, Edward IV, Elizabeth Wydeville, executions, Henry Earl of Northumberland, Henry VII, john ingleby, katherine stillington, margery strangeways, Northallerton, property sales, Richard III, Richard Welles, ripley castle, Robert Stillington, Robin Hood, Sheen, william ingleby

Ripley Castle in Yorkshire will be put up for sale later in the year for the first time in 700 years. If you can scrape up the money in your piggybank, the sale also includes the Boar’s Head pub and several village houses. The castle has an interesting history. It became a possession of the…
Was this another of King John’s numerous hunting lodges….?

Jun 26, 2024

buildings

hunting lodges, John, king john’s lodge, property sales, wadhurst.

I have to say that this 16th-century house A 400-year-old house that’s as romantic a country cottage as you could hope to find – Country Life is a feast for the eyes. “….King John’s Lodge is sandwiched between the villages of Ticehurst and Wadhurst in the High Weald National Landscape, Kent….” I can only sigh…
Fancy the Scottish Island to which Robert the Bruce fled….?

Jun 18, 2024

battles, buildings, religion

celtic crosses, Country Life, Edward Bruce, property sales, Robert I, Sanda Island, Scotland, Sir William wallace, St. Ninian

Sanda Island is in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, off the southern tip of the Kintyre peninsula, and it came to my attention when I read this article A Scottish island for sale with seals, seven houses, a lighthouse and its own pub – Country Life in Country Life. The article is beautifully illustrated, with an aerial video that sings…
A chance to own part of Hardy’s Wessex….

Jun 2, 2024

anniversaries, buildings

beaminster, bingham family, Bridport, Country Life, Dorset, melton bingham, mynah birds, property sales, railways, sutton bingham, tess of the d’urbevilles, Thomas Hardy, Turbevilles, Wessex

My father was a Dorset man—Bridport born and bred—and was always proud of his county. And rightly so. It is indeed breathtakingly beautiful and unspoiled. I remember as a child the excitement of changing trains at Maiden Newton, to take the branch line to Bridport. Leaving the rush and noise of the main tracks and…
The house with the elusive history….

May 16, 2024

buildings

chimneys, Holt, Norfolk, property sales, sharrington hall

As a friend has pointed out, how very pleasing to see an old house like this without an ugly topping of huge Tudor chimneys. What a difference it makes. Sharrington Hall, near Holt in Norfolk, is a truly beautiful old property which the agents Savills describe as a “….Historic Grade II* Jacobean Hall dating back…
The largest brick-built Tudor barn in England….

May 7, 2024

buildings, law

“Tudors”, Attorneys General, barns, Country Life, Hales House, Henry VII, Norfolk, property sales, Sir James Hobart

I know how we often grin when speaking of brick-built outhouses, but in this case it’s a lot bigger than the edifices we laugh about. Hales Hall in Norfolk has a barn-and-a-half. And it really is the largest in England. However, I fear that in order to read about it to the full in this…
A spare £9.5 million will get you a beautiful historic castle in Cumbria….

Mar 3, 2024

battles, buildings, sources, Uncategorized

appleby castle, british History Online, castles, First Battle of St. Albans, hotels, Lake District, property sales, Richard Duke of York, Richard II, Richard III, thomas baron clifford

Britain fair bulges with castles, especially along borders or simply impose control in troublesome areas. Some of these fortresses are stark, dramatic ruins that still carry the threatening air that was intended when they were built. Others are more beautiful….and still occupied by those fortunate enough to have, say, £9.5 million stashed away for a…
There are front doors….and there are FRONT DOORS….!!!!!

Jan 13, 2024

buildings

Ashdown Forest, Cheshire, Country Life, Domesday Book, Dutton family, Dutton Hall, Edward III, Farmhouses, Homestall Manor, John of Gaunt, Lord Tommy Dewar, property sales, West Sussex, whisky

This astonishing door is said to be 1000 years old, belongs to Homestall Manor in West Sussex and came originally from a French monastery. Regarding the house itself: “….Originally a simple farmhouse, the oldest part of the property dates from 1350, when it was probably used as a hunting box by John of Gaunt,…
Want your very own 12th-century abbey by the Thames….?

Dec 9, 2023

buildings, religion

abbeys, Cistercians, Coggeshall, Essex, property sales, River Blackwater

“….The [former Cistercian] Abbey at Coggeshall isn’t your average home — even by the standards of the sort of homes featured in Country Life. It’s a historic former monastic complex of immense character and charm set in 25 acres of beautifully landscaped gardens on the banks of the River Blackwater, less than a mile from the…
A cottage with a very long, spooky tunnel….

Nov 1, 2023

battles, buildings, films, religion

Cambridgeshire, catacombs, Church of England, crusaders, Henry VIII, Mary I, priest holes, property sales, secret tunnels

You know what they say…as above so below? Well, not in the case of this Cambridgeshire cottage which is for sale at £425,000. While I love the “above” part…the “below” gives me the jitters! So my £425,000 is safe. “….Steps lead from the kitchen to a good-sized basement, where you’ll find a trap door leading…