Lyveden New Bield, a half-completed Elizabethan manor house in Aldwinkle-St-Peter, Northamptonshire. After the death of its commissioners, Sir Thomas Tresham and son in 1605, building work ceased on the site and it has remained abandoned ever since.Photo credit, via On The Borderland (click photo for wallpaper size).
It looks like it's in amazingly good condition. The original builders did a fabulous job of putting the foundation down for everything to be so square four centuries later, especially considering the amount of water present on the grounds. And you've got to assume there was no maintenance for a couple of those centuries, either. Good architecture is wonderful, but it's nothing if it doesn't have craftsmanship to match.
ReplyDeleteI'd gladly pay the HP demand and taxes on the place if they'd let me stay in the tower at the front.
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