You know those Let’s Move to the Country shows? I want to start one called Let’s Move To an Old Castle. This week: Castle Lodge in Ludlow, Shropshire.
The Daily Mail is reporting that you can now buy a 13th century home in Shropshire, that formed a part of both Catherine of Aragon and Lady Jane Grey’s history.
Castle Lodge is on the market again.
In the 1580s it was rebuilt, and has one of the largest collections of original Tudor timber in  England. Some of the paneling came from Henry VIII’s Nonsuch palace in Surrey, which no longer exists. There’s also a fireplace that supposedly came from one of Henry’s other homes. It has twelve bedrooms, one of which is where Catherine of Aragon slept when she was married to Prince Arthur.
Jane Grey also lived there, and Oliver Cromwell used it as a staging area during the English Civil War.
View the full listing on the realtor’s website here, from which I’ve grabbed these pictures:
What do you all say – shall we go in on a joint venture and
run it as an airbnb? What castle (or lodge) would you like to move to?
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Heather Teysko is the creator, writer, and producer of The Renaissance English History Podcast,  one of the longest running indie history podcasts, going since 2009. She's been writing about history online for over 25 years, since her first site on Colonial American history became number one in history on Yahoo in 1998. She writes books, created the original Tudor Planner (a yearly diary filled with Tudor history) and in 2019 created the world's first Tudorcon (you can "attend" online this year!). She has been passionate about Tudor England since she first read Alison Weir's The Six Wives of Henry VIII 20 years ago, and subsequently moved to London after college to spend her time immersed in Tudor history.