{"id":269405,"date":"2024-11-23T13:52:54","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T18:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=269405"},"modified":"2024-12-06T10:06:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T15:06:30","slug":"always-wanted-to-be-the-lord-of-the-manor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2024\/11\/23\/always-wanted-to-be-the-lord-of-the-manor\/","title":{"rendered":"Always wanted to be the lord of the manor?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s an estate in Shropshire in the UK &#8212; only 10 million pounds or about $12 million US. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fishergerman.co.uk\/residential-property-sales\/house-for-sale-in-ludstone-claverley-shropshire-wv5\/45642\">Ludstone Hall was built<\/a> in 1607 and sits on about 175 acres of land, has a moat \u2014 which was apparently intended more as an attractive addition rather than an actual fortification \u2014 and a gatehouse with two bedrooms. The main house is about 8,000 square feet and has a ballroom where the floor retracts to reveal a small swimming pool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"350\" data-attachment-id=\"269407\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2024\/11\/23\/always-wanted-to-be-the-lord-of-the-manor\/45642_d55a79d4a5e0276a5c854b98f8ae5750\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/45642_d55a79d4a5e0276a5c854b98f8ae5750.jpg?fit=1600%2C1066&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1600,1066\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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Ludstone Hall was built in 1607 and sits on about 175 acres of land, has a moat \u2014 which was apparently intended more as an attractive addition rather than an actual fortification \u2014 and a gatehouse with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2024\/11\/23\/always-wanted-to-be-the-lord-of-the-manor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Always wanted to be the lord of the manor?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":true,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269405"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269714,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269405\/revisions\/269714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}