#manors

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[hometoursandotherstuff]

This is an 1860 equestrian estate in Pawling, NY. It is an Elizabethan style manor house with a carriage house & groom’s quarters, a yoga studio, stable, greenhouse, plus a caretakers wing and nursery wing. 17bds, 13ba, 15,000sqft, $5.5m.

Now, this is an entrance hall.

Look at the carvings in the railings, and the castle-like stone walls.

All the wood is so intricately carved.

In the sitting room the walls are wood, the ceilings are heavily beamed, and the windows are leaded glass.

The dining room is grand. It features a fireplace, wainscoting, plate shelf, fancy ceiling millwork, plus an alcove with a built-in banquette.

There's a lovely huge sunroom with doors to the garden.

Look at this hall leading to the sunroom. Those doors.

A sweet little nook retreat.

What a lovely music room.

The kitchen has a well-used chef's stove and a wood map of France on the wall.

The primary bedroom is larger than some studio apts.

The guest room is nicer than some hotel suites.

On the upper floors the ceilings follow the arched shape of the roof.

They all have seating areas.

Comfortable family room.

Beautiful pool room with built-in benches, shelving, and a fireplace.

In here, you've got a little chapel for private Sunday services, weddings, whatever.

The nursery wing has kind of a creepy circus themed mural in the hall.

The baths are vintage and original.

The garage must be the former carriage house. It even has a balcony.

Picturesque horse barn.

Hello.

Another lovely barn.

It's a beautiful home.

25.5 acre complex.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/618-Quaker-Hill-Rd-Pawling-NY-12564/2054665933_zpid/?

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

John Dickson Carr - Deadly Hall - Harper & Row - 1971 (jacket design by Sark Mazmanian)

[nordicsublime]

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[nightmaredazzling]

HOUSES / MANORS OF HORROR MOVIES

◆ Halloween Kills (2021) Dir. David Gordon Green

◆ Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) Dir. Wes Craven

◆ Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) Dir. Marcus Nispel / Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006) Dir. Jonathan Liebesman

◆ It Chapter I (2017) / It Chapter II (2019) Dir. Andy Muschietti

◆ Scream (1996) Dir. Wes Craven

◆ Black Christmas (1974) Dir. Bob Clark

◆ The Boy (2016) Dir. William Brent Bell

◆ The Woman in Black (2012) Dir. James Watkins

◆ The Conjuring (2013) Dir. James Wan

◆ Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) Dir. Tobe Hooper

[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.