Little Moreton Hall, Cheshire

Little Moreton Hall, in Cheshire, is an extensive half-timbered Elizabethan mansion, built by the wealthy Moreton family in the 15th and 16th centuries. The house was designed primarily as a home rather than a fortress, and its surrounding moat was dug more for aesthetic than for defensive purposes.This is a view of the south front of the house, with a bridge over the moat.

Rupert Truman/The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty

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British Architecture; Cheshire

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