#manors

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Stunning 1920 mansion in Savannah, GA. 6bds, 6.5ba, 4,577 sq ft, $2.595m.

What an amazing entrance hall.

Every room in this home is elegant.

A sitting room opens to the dining room.

The dining room has a view of the kitchen through Greek columns.

There's a small dining table in the kitchen.

The kitchen perfectly fits in with the style of the home.

The primary bedroom is huge. It has a full size living room.

The bath is huge.

Here's a lovely room.

The stairs are beautiful.

Such a pretty bedroom.

The updated baths are done in perfect taste.

Most of the bedrooms are oversized and beautifully decorated.

Even the smaller rooms are elegantly appointed.

What a great old fireplace in this home office.

The laundry room has a kitchenette.

The garden is gorgeous.

Private patio for dining.

Beautiful porch and patio around the pool.

This is a guest house.

Beautiful modern apt.

Large garage.

The lot is .30 acre.

https://estillmanor.com/

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Jennifer Blair (i.e. Adeline McElfresh) - Skye Manor - Dell - 1971 (cover illustration by Gordon Johnson)

[nordicsublime]

Cowley Manor

[racefortheironthrone]

Did all the medieval nobles in real history have castles like in ASOIAF

All? No.

Castles were very expensive to construct and the right to crenellate was jealously controlled by the monarchy, so it was generally the wealthiest and most powerful among the nobility who had them.

However, a little bit lower down the rungs of the nobility, you had noblemen who could afford to build a castle, but not the crenellation tax that the king collected as his fee, and thus you got "adulterine castles." (To use a modern consumer goods analogy, these are knock-offs compared to the "Gucci" of a licensed castle.)

Yet further down, your broad middle of the nobility would most likely have a fortified manorhouse - which is taking the manor house, the one thing that pretty much all medieval nobles had by definition, and essentially building a thick walled extension and other defenses (like moats or ditches) around the manor house that let the residents withstand a bandit attack or brief siege.

So it's more a spectrum than a binary of castle vs. no castle.

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(What We Do in the Shadows) Vampire Residence by Cracked Compass

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Hidden alleyways and abandonded manors

📍Syros, Greece, 05 - 09/08/2024

Bonus pic:

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Coton Manor, Northamptonshire, England

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He is THE King (and the father)

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Alright. I don’t like watching movies or getting movie recommendations, but I’m grasping at straws here. I need movies that take place in Castles or Big Manors. I’d prefer older films, but I guess beggars can’t be choosers, right?

I’ve seen :

The Black Room (1935) with Boris Karloff (Excellent)

Dragonwyck (1946) with Vincent Price (Good)

Jane Eyre (1944 & 2011) (My favorite)

House With the Long Shadows (1983) (Good until the End)

The Black Castle (1952) (Could have Been Worse)

The Spiral Staircase (1946) (Very Decent)

A Place Of Their Own (1945) (Eh.)

Any recommendations welcome!

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This home looks like a combination Tudor/Castle, but it's an Equestrian Estate and an Elizabethan style manor house with 2 caretaker homes, a carriage house with groom's quarters, a yoga studio, a 12, 000 sq. ft. stable, greenhouse and more. Built in 1860 in Pawling, New York, it has 17bds, 9.5ba., and a total of 43 rooms. $6.5M.

The grand entrance. Does the Samurai warrior convey?

Wow, look at the stone walls and wood carvings.

It's very classic- a sitting room with rich wood paneled walls, beamed ceilings and leaded glass windows.

Wow, this is some dining room with an interesting fireplace, wainscoting, and ceiling. That's a table for 14. Geez.

Beautiful huge sun porch with views of the grounds.

Don't know what this little sitting area is, but it sure is fancy.

Gets more modern in here.

This is cute, a little sunroom.

Like the kitchen- look at the old water heater in the corner and the vintage stove. This is such a classic vintage French country kitchen, I wonder if they'll leave the map of France.

The primary bedroom has a full size sitting room.

This bedroom has a full-size living room and a dining alcove.

Looks like all the bedrooms have sitting areas.

Like the ceilings in the upper floor bedrooms. So cozy.

Nice family room. Love the castle look.

Look at this, it has a chapel.

Nice billiard room with built-in seating, book shelves and a fireplace.

This is the children's wing with creepy circus murals on the hallway walls.

Love the vintage baths.

They have antique cars in carriage house.

Must be the stables.

The barn and horse buildings look like they need some work.

The property is 25.5 acres. Actually $6.5M isn't that bad for all of this.

[nordicsublime]

Helstegaard

[racefortheironthrone]

Reading on England and a lot of nobles and very well-off families didn't have one main home, but a lot of different estates, some estates they rarely if ever visit and also estates at opposite ends of the country which beyond a few excepts, isn't the case within Seven Kingdoms?

This is a major difference between GRRM's medieval world and our real-life medieval world: for reasons of simplicity that parallel what he did with noble titles, GRRM created geographically contiguous fiefdoms with one major holdfast per fiefdom as opposed to the more historically accurate scattered estates.

It makes the maps look a lot neater too:

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Nobles Estate [43×63] by Wizgrids