Ightham mote part I

Still have absolutely tons of pictures to catch up with from Crete and the Maldives even but I’m back home now and it’s absolutely boiling and my flat is so hot because it’s got tons of glass everywhere and is basically like a green house that I just need to be out in the daytime. It’s very rare for us to have air con here and our places are built to keep heat in lol It’s hot! It’s hard to do any editing or anything so I popped out to a national trust property to make use of my membership and went to the absolutely stunning Ightham mote. I got so many pics I might have to spread this over two posts.

Ightham mote is a perfectly preserved medieval moated manor house. during the 14th-century around 1320; it is not known who the wealthy man was who originally built this stunning Manor House.
During the 15th-century, Ightham Mote was inherited by the Haute family, who had significant notable importance with royalty and noblemen. It then changed hands several times and ended up with the Selby family owning it for almost 3 centuries until 1889, passing it down several generations.

In the 20th -century, Sir Thomas Colyer-Fergusson tonight the property and spent a considerable amount of money repairing the major, also adding a bit of modernisation by installing electricity, mains water and central heating. His three sons sadly died in the war and so it went down to his grandson who was unable to keep up with payments to look after the house and he had to sell it.

At one point Ightham mote was in danger of being demolished before it was bought for £5,500 by wealthy American Mr. Charles Henry Robinson, who had seen an advertisement in country life magazine. He was a wealthy American businessman from Portland, Maine and had visited the medieval house as a young man. In 1952 Ingham Mote was given Grade I Listed Building Status and was recognized as a building of national importance.

Mr. Charles Henry Robinson adored this property and spent the summer months in the property for 3 decades, he did a lot of work on the property. When he died in 1985 at 93, he had already bequeathed the house to the National Trust along with money for its future upkeep.

I’ll focus mainly on the outside and do another post for the inside :)