#manors

This is an 1860 equestrian estate in Pawling, NY. It is an Elizabethan style manor house with a carriage house & groom’s quarters, a yoga studio, stable, greenhouse, plus a caretakers wing and nursery wing. 17bds, 13ba, 15,000sqft, $5.5m.

HOUSES / MANORS OF HORROR MOVIES

◆ Halloween Kills (2021) Dir. David Gordon Green

◆ Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) Dir. Wes Craven

◆ Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) Dir. Marcus Nispel / Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006) Dir. Jonathan Liebesman

◆ It Chapter I (2017) / It Chapter II (2019) Dir. Andy Muschietti

◆ Scream (1996) Dir. Wes Craven

◆ Black Christmas (1974) Dir. Bob Clark

◆ The Boy (2016) Dir. William Brent Bell

◆ The Woman in Black (2012) Dir. James Watkins

◆ The Conjuring (2013) Dir. James Wan

All? No.

Castles were very expensive to construct and the right to crenellate was jealously controlled by the monarchy, so it was generally the wealthiest and most powerful among the nobility who had them.

However, a little bit lower down the rungs of the nobility, you had noblemen who could afford to build a castle, but not the crenellation tax that the king collected as his fee, and thus you got "adulterine castles." (To use a modern consumer goods analogy, these are knock-offs compared to the "Gucci" of a licensed castle.)

Yet further down, your broad middle of the nobility would most likely have a fortified manorhouse - which is taking the manor house, the one thing that pretty much all medieval nobles had by definition, and essentially building a thick walled extension and other defenses (like moats or ditches) around the manor house that let the residents withstand a bandit attack or brief siege.