Inside a 450+ Year Old Tudor Manor: Little Moreton Hall

[@calumbaxter9946]

I lived and grew up opposite the hall in Moreton cottages and spent a lot of my childhood visiting the house and the grounds. If the Moreton family fortunes had been different, then the hall may well have been demolished and rebuilt in a more modern and up to date style as were many other English country houses. I suppose being poor had the advantage of preserving this rambling but beautiful building. Oh and thank you Ken for popping over to the other side of the pond!

[@jayneneewing2369]

It’s hard for me to understand growing up next to this wonderful place as I live in Southern California where they love to tear down and build again. The oldest places in my area are the old Catholic missions which are lovely, buy they’re no Moreton Hall. To me, you seemed very fortunate indeed. Thanks for your comment.

[@jpx1508]

What a remarkable, whimsical English, historically fabled building locked in time. The building's story seems to be a family fortune lost through allegiance to the Monarchy in the English Civil Wars, fortunately followed with recovering the Hall following the Stuart Restoration.... although unfortunately recovering the Hall without recovering the fortune affording the Hall, being lost with the fortunes of war. Unfortunately, and ultimately fortunately, ownership became house-poor without ability to modernize the Hall and apparently with enough division of heirs to prevent controlling interest, demolition or sale. And so Little Moreton Hall decayed.... and survived.... to be restored to the classic it is today.

[@elpirata5468]

love how this gem managed to survive through the ages

[@andreastickney9305]

Fascinating, and fortunate that it is still here today. Thank you for the tour.

[@carcar78]

Some houses are just TOO unique to demolish, thank goodness!😊

[@lauriehall1249]

D Thanks for another great tour. Thank the stars for the National Trust. Many fascinating and historic homes were torn down before the Trust was created.

[@SpanishEclectic]

And, due to those lovely words, "The National Trust", this unique home still stands, and is open to visitors. If you want a definition for the word "wonky", this is it. While not as beautiful as some other styles (though that is a matter of personal choice), this building is a fascinating treasure in the way it has preserved for us such a complete view of the way people lived during this time. And yes, that would have been a fortune in glass.

[@mariacrouch7109]

ABSOLUTLY EXQUISIT WHAT A BEAUTIFUL HOUSE

[@helenhughes9420]

A few miles down the road from me. The inside of the hall is very beautiful as are the grounds surrounding ❤

[@PATCARSON-l6v]

How fascinating! Thanks for sharing. cheers

[@thinktonka]

I visited two years ago. It really was everything I imagined it to be...it's quite spectacular and unique!

[@stevepriest2763]

Fascinating contrast between a centuries old manor haphazardly assembled and the Gilded Age mansions that are massive and carefully designed, but sometimes only stand for a couple of decades.

[@teresaluna2069]

Fascinating I would love to see it in person.

[@kendranewton9071]

OMG, those windows remind me of patchwork quilts I make. It is quirky but beautiful!

[@portaltwo]

What a wonderful house, amazingly preserved despite so much passage of time! Oh, just by the way, Elizabethan is pronounced ElizaBEEthan.

[@brandonpiazza6210]

My first question to myself when I see this house is, “Is it Too much?”. That’s how I know I love it!!

[@elephantintheroom5678]

Oh my God! THIS is now my favourite! I don't know how you manage to outdo yourself! 🤩

[@janedee6488]

So beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

[@StamperWendy]

3:45 I like the exposed beams. I see them sometimes, here in Massachusetts ❤

[@monicacall7532]

Considering how expensive glass was back then the Mortens must’ve been very, very wealthy.

[@amandab.recondwith8006]

Been there. Very interesting and beautiful in its way. Haunted as hell!

[@David-tm8sl]

Truly a fascinating building! I did not see a straight line anywhere 😮

[@garygloska7396]

I will definitely add some new rooms that I heard on this episode to my dream house❤😃

[@caroleinwv]

Fascinating detail!

[@gonefishing167]

What a treasure, thank you so much. I’m glad it’s in safe hands to preserve it for future generations. It can teach so much about history can it not? Once again, thank you 🙏🙏👵🇦🇺

[@wessebaggers]

I love it ! ❤❤❤

[@deborahbrottmiller2948]

What a gem

[@larrydavidson1838]

Its lack of straight lines really triggered my OCD. Thank you for another amazing video!

[@BellaCroyda]

It's a WEIRD house, but I like it.

[@kimberlycorliss9616]

It's really a beautiful house.There's so many windows too. The architecture built over the years does seem work well together. The up keep of the house and grounds must be hard.

[@asylumlover]

KEN, WHAT I THINK IS SIMPLE, AT LEAST IT'S STILL THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND A DEFINITIVE DEMOLITION FREE ZONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@erikaleonard2848]

Its so so beautiful i love it! 😊❤❤

[@stephfoxwell4620]

Love this place. Spent many happy visits there. I also love Brockhampton in Herefordshire.

[@jrjubach]

Thanks to the Moreton family and the National Trust for keeping this place alive! Truly a great piece of British history.

[@ime7918]

What a quirky house. Truly fascinating. Thanks for taking us inside.

[@DanielF-ty3sb]

Remarkable!

[@Ivehadenuff]

Lovely!

[@laurielaurie8280]

Very unique and interesting.

[@debbralehrman5957]

Thanks Ken👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[@yettobseen]

Have you Ben to Agecroft hall in Richmond Va.? Built in England 16th century and moved here.in the 1920’s

[@lynntaylor7513]

Nice!!!

[@mikedennis6979]

Amazing Home

[@anonUK]

There's a similar Elizabethan house about 8 miles NE of there called Gawsworth Hall, on the outskirts of Macclesfield. If you come to England, Little Moreton is near Junction 17 of the M6, Gawsworth near Junction 18/19 and Manchester Airport is nearby.

[@boston_octopus_442]

On my bucket list! Hard to believe people were building homes similar to today's back in the 1400s.

[@wendymontie5660]

I first learned of Little Moreton back in college. I took a class towards my Art History minor degree “English Country Houses & Gardens” my absolute favorite of all of my studies! Thank you for covering it. Any chance of Bear Wood? (If you’ve already covered it, I’ll go check it out)

[@viewtuber8428]

@ThisHouse you need to do something on the beautiful houses of south east Asia, like the palaces of the house of Jaipur or the Istanas of Malaysia/Thailand/Singapore, like the grand city palace, or Astana Besar, or Umaid Bhawan Palace!

[@woowoochuggachugga]

I would love to visit it. I bet I have an ancestor or two who partied there.

[@jpx1508]

What a remarkable, whimsical English, historically fabled building locked in time. The building's story seems to be a family fortune lost through allegiance to the Monarchy in the English Civil Wars, fortunately followed with recovering the Hall following the Stuart Restoration.... although unfortunately recovering the Hall without recovering the fortune affording the Hall, being lost with the fortunes of war. Unfortunately, and ultimately fortunately, ownership became house-poor without ability to modernize the Hall and apparently with enough division of heirs to prevent controlling interest, demolition or sale. And so Little Moreton Hall decayed.... and survived.... to be restored to the classic it is today.

[@davethursfield9283]

A beautiful house. I used to live nearby and visited many times. Interesting fact: the house has no foundations and sits there like a doll's house.

[@BlaineShire]

I descend from the Moreton family of Moreton Castle.

[@stevenkaskus6173]

Would love to have seen it's kitchen

[@jetsons101]

I'm not sure of this but I have heard that houses built back then had minimal or no real foundations. The timbers were just laid on some stones to get the timber just above the dirt and that's why houses got so crooked over the years.

[@jill-ti7oe]

Golden Age of English timber framing. 😀👍

[@leonhayes188]

This looks like it could be the house in Joseph Sheridan Lefanu's story, "Madame Crowl's Ghost".

[@KyloRenRadio]

What is the whole carving that begins "The Wheel of Fortune"? Thanks

[@robertbrandywine]

it must have been very cold in winter, with all of those windows.

[@brucekuehn4031]

All that glass and held up with wood. 450 years!

[@mariacrouch7109]

HAVE YOU SEEN SPEKE HALL IF NOT WELL WORTHE A VISIT

[@melissajenniferjones9959]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@kathleenadams3770]

I love your presentation….👍🏾

[@crestalee2496]

Looking at the outside gives me a headache! The inside is more appealing.

[@gwmkiwi]

I am surprised that in the past some rich American has not bought this building to incorporate it into their to be built American mansion

[@AndreasAndersson-ve4jx]

The wood, etc actually seem to be in good condition. How do they keep such a structure from rotting/molding? I guess that takes the National Trust experts, not for everyone. I once worked in a grand old house in the Very fancy Särö, south of Gothenburg. That was a log house clad with reeds and plastered, to simulate a stone house. I guess as long as the original family and their building manager lived there, they knew how to maintain it. But when the company were i worked bought the house, they kinda did as good as they could, which was not good enough and the wooden structure rotted terribly, which made it a very unhealthy (though fancy) place to work...

[@poncho6784]

Clearly built before the invention of the carpenter’s square. 😂

[@michaelwalter3399]

This is what you get when your architect has had too many flagons of mead.

[@noelpayne6249]

The voice of the narrator is horrible. AI voice generator?

[@summerwierth4405]

Had to mute the narrator, whose cadence was like nails on the proverbial chalkboard.

[@lisadolan689]

I would fight to protect this house due to its historical value, however I think it’s ugly and if I had to look at it in my daily life…. I don’t like anything about Tudor architecture. Nothing at all.

[@StarskyBuba]

A strange insite into your mind, but of course each to their own.

[@cnr414Nicole]

What is that house made of? Whatever it is, use it to make every house going forward. Cars, too. 450 years! Why I tell ya. 🫤