Advantages: A historical building Disadvantages: disappointing and spoilt by the owners
...after the visit to the castle that we went in here.
After we had a lovely lunch in the café situated next door to the lodge after a amazing trip around the castle. We were all in high spirits and enjoying our food and refreshments, I dropped the bombshell that I wanted to see the house, they did try to dissuade me as they were now getting slightly tired and wanted to do a little retail therapy or go home. Well I can be a stubborn old so and so at ... ...that I found, firstly Castle Lodge was originally built in the 13th Century, but it was later rebuilt in the 16th Century. The arched doorway appears to be from the original lodge dating back to the 13th century (the Normans did like their arches). It was rebuilt around 1580 by Thomas Sackford a local gentleman of good standing and the upstairs was added around the 1600’s by the next leaseholder Mr Robert Berry another local gentleman of good standing. ...
arnoldhenryrufus 13.06.2009 (18.06.2009)
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