Online Resources: Tudor and Stuart
The Castles of Tudor History
During their lifetime as habitable residences, the medieval castles of Ludlow, Hever, Carew, Pembroke and Leeds all spent time as the temporary homes of key players in the history of Tudor England.
https://englandexplore.com/castles-tudor-history/?utm_source=mailerlite&utm_medium=email&omhide=true
Medieval/Early Modern rural architecture
YouTube video of Pendean farmhouse, a seventeenth-century yeoman farmer’s timber-framed house originally located near Middleham in East Sussex before being dismantled in 1968 and reconstructed in its original form at the Weald and Downland Living Museum (in West Sussex) in 1976. Despite its date of construction (attested to by dendrochronological dating of its timbers), the house blends styles from both the medieval and Early Modern periods.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mp-Uhqsj-4
Tudor wall paintings found beneath plaster at medieval manor in Yorkshire
The paintings at Calverley Old Hall feature mythical creatures and climbing vines in red, black and white. Dendrochronology of the artworks’ wooden frame suggests that they were created somewhere between 1540 and 1580.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/gobsmacked-restorers-make-discovery-of-a-lifetime-at-medieval-manor-in-england-180979053/
Harvington Hall
This Tudor manor house near Kidderminster in Worcestershire boasts the second-highest number of priest holes in the United Kingdom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQUq37DSRFo
Compton Wynyates
Photos and information about a Tudor house built by Sir William Compton and visited in 1526 by his most famous childhood friend: King Henry VIII.
https://thetudortravelguide.com/compton-wynyates-the-most-perfect-and-inaccessible-tudor-house-in-england/





