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Thomas Ottley bought the Manor of
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It was built c.1560 on the site of a medieval building and has been modified several times since, particularly in the 1870s and 1880s when it was substantially restored, remodelled and extended. It is a timber-framed two-storey building with rendered red sandstone panels, a stone roof and brick
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from the treehouse, and in her diary described the hall as "A curious looking but very comfortable house. It is striped black and white, and in the shape of a cottage." The house formerly contained a sketch of a mounted guardsman that she made during her stay.
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to renovate and upgrade the house, which included the removal of the south side of the courtyard and installation of replacement windows, baths and water closets. Charles died unmarried and the estate passed by 1918 to his brother-in-law
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timber-framed building on a plinth of sandstone rubble, with rendered infill panels. It is on an E plan, with a main courtyard in the south and a service wing in the west. It was Grade I listed in
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from 1272 and built the local church of St
Michael, which contains an oak effigy of him. Eventually, however, the family had to sell the estate to the church in the 1330s in order to repay debts.
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The hall and its contents were sold at auction in 1992. The hall was repurchased in 2016 by the
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well, near a ford across the Row Brook, from which the village gets its name. The bitumen or pitch was once used for waterproofing the timbers of the house. A 17th-century
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chimneys. The floor plan is E-shaped round a courtyard to the south with a
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princess. It was left vacant and fell into disrepair. As of 2005 English
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