#queenscrown

I'm feeling anti Targaryen.

They're Jon's ancestors, let him clean up the mess.

Sansa will have her hands full with the North proper. :)

After I wrote about Fixing Up Dragonstone, you want me to write another Medieval Home and Gardening post, this time Queenscrown edition?

The problems with Queenscrown are obvious: most of the houses have collapsed, the inn has only two standing walls, the oak doors of the tower are too warped to close completely (though the rest of the tower appears in good shape). So any new lord looking to attract people to the village is going to have to invest some money into rebuilding.

Jojen enumerates the advantages of the Queenscrown area in Bran III ASOS: “This is good land." Jojen picked up a handful of dirt, rubbing it between his fingers. "A village, an inn, a stout holdfast in the lake, all these apple trees . . . but where are the people, Bran? Why would they leave such a place?” While Bran says the inn was never much of an inn, that there was even a small one, partially made of stone (stone structures are rare in these villages), with a common room indicates there was some business from travelers/traders along the Kingsroad. The apple trees could provide some income, but as Bran’s chapter shows, the fruit is only available during the warmer seasons (which, unless seasons by the end of canon are changed to resemble those on earth, can last for years), and thus possibly unreliable (there’s possibly a business for making preserves). The thick oak trees are a potential source of timber, maybe to help rebuild the inn and some of the cottages. The lake provides fresh water, although there’s not mentioned to be fish/frogs for food there. At least some deer are around to make venison. From Queenscrown to the Wall are grasslands, “fallow fields…high meadows”, which do have value if someone were to replant or graze their flocks there come spring.

Depends on what you can grow there, most fiefs were on the primary sector which means soil productivity and other matters of natural resources need to be considered to get a rough estimation of how valuable the fief would be. There are apple trees, but is there space and good soil for apple orchards to be cultivated? There are oak trees, but is that enough for a timber industry? Is there space to graze sheep or goats? It appears to be on a lake, so there's fresh water, but not on a river to help transport large loads or drive a mill, so that would probably hurt productivity somewhat.

Thanks for the question, Anon.