I believe WWI did for a lot of the old estates. Their previously wealthy owners’ estates began to dwindle and the etstates were often broken up after the war. This happened to the big house that my house belonged to as an outlying tenant farmhouse.
Pretty impressive, but I don’t know if i would like to be burdened with an old pile like that. It would be impossibly expensive to maintain and it would hurt like hell to make the decision to tear it down.
uprootsockmansays
How many of those spires are chimneys?
404pbnotfoundsays
Costessey – pronounced ‘cossey’ isn’t it?
speachtreesays
The original Tudor hall is the modest three-story winged mansion in the bottom left corner. The whimsical gothic revival was built in the 19th century to look much older than it really is. The Tudor estate was the historic part, not the enormous plaything added 300 years later for some eccentric playboy Lord.
This sub likes to fawn over what are (essentially modern) 19th Century or 20th Century buildings made in some style of a period long since gone—as if they’re actually from the period they poorly pretend to be.
There was a “chateau” posted here that was obviously made out of concrete and iron, for god sakes. That’s not a chateau anymore than Cinderella’s Castle in Disney World.
AussieShepherdsRule says
How dad. It had been around for a loooong time
haversack77 says
I believe WWI did for a lot of the old estates. Their previously wealthy owners’ estates began to dwindle and the etstates were often broken up after the war. This happened to the big house that my house belonged to as an outlying tenant farmhouse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costessey_Hall
HeritageCarrot says
What a shame to destroy such human achievement.
threalseymourskinner says
Pretty impressive, but I don’t know if i would like to be burdened with an old pile like that. It would be impossibly expensive to maintain and it would hurt like hell to make the decision to tear it down.
uprootsockman says
How many of those spires are chimneys?
404pbnotfound says
Costessey – pronounced ‘cossey’ isn’t it?
speachtree says
The original Tudor hall is the modest three-story winged mansion in the bottom left corner. The whimsical gothic revival was built in the 19th century to look much older than it really is. The Tudor estate was the historic part, not the enormous plaything added 300 years later for some eccentric playboy Lord.
This sub likes to fawn over what are (essentially modern) 19th Century or 20th Century buildings made in some style of a period long since gone—as if they’re actually from the period they poorly pretend to be.
There was a “chateau” posted here that was obviously made out of concrete and iron, for god sakes. That’s not a chateau anymore than Cinderella’s Castle in Disney World.