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The Wealden hall house is a type of vernacular medieval timber-framed hall house traditional in the south east of England. Typically built for a yeoman , it is most common in Kent (hence "Wealden" for the once densely forested Weald ) and the east of Sussex but has also been built elsewhere. [ 1 ]
Haddon Hall is an English country house on the River Wye near Bakewell, Derbyshire, a former seat of the Dukes of Rutland. It is the home of Lord Edward Manners (brother of the incumbent Duke) and his family. In form a medieval manor house, it has been described as "the most complete and most interesting house of [its] period". [3]
The hall house, having started in the Middle Ages as a home for a lord and his community of retainers, permeated to the less well-off during the early modern period. During the sixteenth century, the rich crossed what Brunskill describes as the "polite threshold" and became more likely to employ professionals to design their homes. [7]
The manor on which the castle was situated was termed the caput of the barony, thus every true ancient defensive castle was also the manor house of its own manor. The suffix "-Castle" was also used to name certain manor houses, generally built as mock castles, but often as houses rebuilt on the site of a former true castle:
The Landmark Trust launched an international design competition to find architecture firms that could revitalise Calverley Old Hall, in which 75 firms from across the world submitted designs. During a rigorous judging process nine architects were shortlisted, and Cowper Griffith Architect’s scheme was selected as the winning design.
The house was looked after from 1949 by a volunteer group, The Friends of the Old Hall (FOHA), who saved the building and first opened it to the public. Sir Edmund Bacon gave it to the nation in 1970. [7] The house is now owned by English Heritage and is open to the public as a museum.
Little Moreton Hall, also known as Old Moreton Hall, [a] is a moated half-timbered manor house 4.5 miles (7.2 km) south-west of Congleton in Cheshire, England. [2] The earliest parts of the house were built for the prosperous Cheshire landowner William Moreton in about 1504–08 and the remainder was constructed in stages by successive generations of the family until about 1610.
A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor in Europe. The house formed the administrative centre of a manor in the European feudal system; within its great hall were held the lord's manorial courts, communal meals with manorial tenants and great banquets.