LITTLE MORETON HALL: Wonky floors and Witch marks in a delightful 16th century Tudor house
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- Опубликовано: 9 апр 2024
- Situated just outside of the town of Congleton, Cheshire. Little Moreton Hall is an amazing looking Tudor house. With lovely gardens, a great moat and some well preserved paintings it would stand with a lot of national trust estates in it's offerings. What makes Little Moreton Hall stand out is it's delightfully chaotic, almost ramshackle appearance. Floors are wonky, buildings are anything but asymmetrical and the whole thing is amazing.
Built by the wealthy Moreton family in the early 1500's. There is very little known about these first few years. Building themselves up after the chaos of the Black Death they seemed keen to show off their wealth and status. This ran until the Civil War where they chose to back the Royalists, which obviously didn't pan out very well. Losing status and wealth actually meant the building was left in it's original state, rather than modernised through the years.
As well as the unusual archetecture, I was also fascinated by the ritual protection or witch marks around the house. Some 250 of these have been found and I will do a video on these later for my Five Minute Folklore playlist.
The site is well paved and a short walk from the car park. All the ground floor areas are general good accesability for all. Although the upper floors will not be available to anyone in a wheel chair. There is a cafe, shop and toilets on site.
Here is the national trust site for the hall - www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visi...
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How can you not like a house that thinks it's a zebra. Cool.
I love the wonky floors! Well, unless I was drunk in which case it would just make it worse I guess.
Beautiful house, steeped in history, what’s not to love.
Imagine the oak trees that the massive vertical beams came from. Nothing modern could match the craftsmanship in this building. I can see where the Esthetic Movement and William Morris got their inspiration.
I loved that you can still see the original carpenters marks in the beams. Where they measured and marked them up in the lumber yard for easy fixing in site. Almost like a giant intricate flat pack!
It's a few years since we went to Little Moreton Hall but still remember the wonky floors. What a fascinating place. Enjoyed your video so much and it has made us want to visit there again soon. Thank you for sharing this. Was good to see the gardens too. You picked a good day with the sunshine. Best wishes Dave and Dawn ❤️
This was my first visit and I absolutely loved it. Such a charming place. You may have guessed from some of my other videos that I have a fascination with folklore and the like. So all the ritual marks and superstitious things were double exciting for me.
Thank you for this video as I’ll never be able to visit this amazing house myself. I’ve never seen such a richly decorated house before, the successive owners must have been seriously wealthy!
It's actually pretty interesting. Though the Moreton family were pretty wealthy they declined quite quickly. Usually this would be a bad thing but it meant that Little Moreton Hall stayed in mostly it's original condition which we can enjoy today. Other more wealthy landowners always updated and renovated houses to more modern styles. So it's good to have a Tudor house that aside from essential repairs is pretty much in it's original condition.
Really enjoyed the video - off there on Sunday - looking forward to it
You are going to love it. See how many of the protection marks you can spot!
The docents at this site are wonderful. Very knowledgeable about the house and really happy to take a minute to answer your questions. I hope someday I can visit here in person.
If you ever do make it over there are several amazing places around the area. It's quite often overlooked, but it's not that far from Manchester.
Wow! Got this on my playlist and I am living in Hesse, Germany. The strangeness of it's design makes it all the more crazy beautiful. Thanks guys. ❤
It's amazing that it's left in it's original chaotic form. A true little treasure. Thanks for watching and glad you like it :)
What an amazing building/house! When I travel to the UK, I am definitely going to make time to see it in person. I cannot believe the amount of original features still intact. Absolutely stunning! Thank you for posting this video.
It's a great little place which often gets overlooked by bigger old houses and halls nearby. If you are going to look at a few of the old houses around the area you can get a good tourist pass from the National Trust which gets you some great savings.
Brilliant video... love this place we we're there not so ago! Really enjoyed seeing it through your eyes ! 😊
First time here for me and an absolute gem. I need to get to the other side of Stoke more often.
Thanks for doing this! I was there a few years ago. it was my favourite memory of my trip to England. Many instagram a posts were made about it.
It's such a great little place that often gets overlooked. Where else did you visit when you were over?
@@OutWithABrew My relatives lived in Ellesmere, so we were there. Also Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, Llangollen, Manchester, London. Random places but very inspiring!
splendid video!
*doffs hat politely*
I've been there. Lovely place.
It really is!
Thank you for this.
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Thank you for watching! Hope you enjoyed it.
Very interesting. Thank you.
Thanks for watching and glad you liked it!
wow lots of spirit orbs also
I would absolutely love to be here at night or at least when it's less busy. Since it's got a lot of the original building in place and with all the witch marks around it, you can positively feel the energy
I could quite happily live here. My house has wonky floors....but was only built in 1750,
Only built in 1750? Practically a new build!
Really is beautiful
It's truly is. I love it's still got it's original ramshackle design and not been updated by previous owners.
@@OutWithABrew I've always wanted to go, but it's a fair old travel from where I live in Yorkshire, so this film, gave me a really detailed look at the location
They had to pay taxes based on how much space the ground floor covered at one point, so architecture evolved. Bigger on the top than the bottoms.
I like the fact that although originaly wealthy, the owners fell on some hard times. While bad for them, it did mean the house didn't get renovated with each new trend. So the building is still quite original.
Beautiful building. Shame filming didn't allow for chance to pause and read smaller of the information sheets in rooms. Too far away. Would have made it more interesting.
I was thinking of this recently. I use a chest camera which is good and unobtrusive for a general walk around but not very good for the signs and the like. I think I may get a good picture of such things which I can then put up on the screen and people can pause to read if they like.
Thanks for the feedback though. Very much appreciated.
Beautiful house but a little slower would be nice, video camera panned the rooms too fast made me dizzy.
My apologies, I was wearing a chest cam and I see what you mean it can be a bit quick. I'll see what I can do in the future, thanks for the feedback :)
Are the scones still very good? Not been for a while.
I had a cuppa but no scones but the food did look good. I had a picnic a little later at Alderley Edge so was saving myself for that.
The food is very good.
I wonder when this beautiful house will burn down accidentally?
I was going to mention how long it's been up, but I really don't want to jinx it.
Like all tourist attractions.... Crawling with people and screaming kids!
It was quite busy while I was there. It's why sometimes I prefer the more off the track places. Like the ruins I sometimes visit:
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I often enjoy museum visits when there's a school group going through. It's interesting to see through a child's eyes. They can ask some really interesting questions. My favorite so far has been the Rodin museum in Paris with a small group of 6-7 year olds. They were well mannered and engaged. Their teacher had them bring little sketch pads and pencils and we all learned about light and shadow. Very cool. I loved hearing the little one on the beginning of this video asking if it was Saturday or Sunday only to learn it was Tuesday. Yeah, it was crowded, but that means the place is supported so has a better chance of being maintained.
I always like seeing people at these places as it means they are getting the support. But I must admit to sometimes wanting to be selfish so I can enjoy the place to myself. Have you have visited Sudbury Hall in Derbyshire? It's designed specifically for children and they love it there.