I actually know someone whose parents Inherited a house whose foundations were laid in the 9th century and is listed in doomsday and during its lifetime it was a monastery as well as the village hall as well as being the land masters abode. And not far, away upon the original grounds, next to an ancient roman road is a bar/ tavern that has been servicing travellers since at least 1620! All this in the area I grew up, on the Wirral Cheshire/ Merseyside England.
We have friends who live in a house that, in its original form was built a 1000 years ago, parts of the timber from that age are still within the building. It’s amazing to see.
Incredible! That's what they call Old World! And yet, how many houses in the Middle East are well within the period B.C? Though most of those would be made of stone...
Thank you for the close ups on the details of the house. Can you imagine that the farmer who built this home ever in his wildest imagination thought it would stand some 700 years?! Amazing.
I’m sure he never thought the house he built would still be standing, let alone, having people visit it on their phones, while sitting on the toilet… 🤯
Thanks I am pleased it's a way for people to see places, I am not so well so I do emphasise. I have done a few videos on the houses at the Weald and Downland museum in case they are of interest to you.
As a New Zealander who drove 6872 km around Britain in 1996, I was very impressed by the level of effort I saw put into preserving a past which made my whole country's European heritage seem quite new. Barns, townhouses, dovecotes, and oasthouses all lovingly maintained. Oh, and to the South of Auckland, we have an Alfriston. I have no doubt named after this one.
" Oh, and to the South of Auckland, we have an Alfriston. I have no doubt named after this one." Probably , a lot of place names from the U.K are in other countries that were in the empire . I have only just started to really notice it
I was born in the UK but live in the US now. I will always be fascinated by old Buildings and enjoyed seeing this house very much. I am glad it is still being taken care of. Thank you very much.
The 'before' and 'after' are dramatically different and wonderful to see the restoration of these old, these very old, buildings. Written history where I live is like last Tuesday to y'all.
Oh my. So wonderful. Thank you so much for sharing. My mom was born in tunbridge well, Kent and moved to America in her early 20's to be a nanny. I was lucky enough to travel back with her a few times and we went to a pub that was built in 1212. Anyway. Thanks again, Sara
It’s fascinating how something built with such temporary materials could last so long. Just imagine how much history went down within and around those walls.
I cannot believe I have just now found this excellent video by Mr. Rogers. I really benefit from his eye and his attention to construction detail in early vernacular houses of his region of England. I am grateful for his posting videos.
Brought back lovely memories for me. I stayed there for a couple of nights many years ago with an old friend of mine for an opera at glyndebourne . We visited the church and the gardens. Had a lovely time in Alfriston Really enjoyed your video.
A beautiful old house in a lovely part of the world. The NT staff were also very attentive and enthusiastic the last time we visited. Well worth a visit to the house and village.
There's a lot of these pumps in allotments here in the Netherlands. I never realised these were used indoors. I suppose they were put to another use once people got running water. Nice video, Harry. It's great to see these beautiful villages in the UK, there's a lot of history there.
This is a lovely, lovely, presentation! What a treat is is to see this house both outside and inside. It sparks my imagination about the lives lived here. I wish you had spent more time viewing the interior. I am fascinated with the fire pit right in the center of the main hall. i can see the value of the smoke filling the high spaces, I imagine it kept the insects and vermin at bay , especially in the winter..no mice dropping off the thatch onto the people? I live across the pond in the US, but i have visited in the Victoria, BC area. We toured a re-creation of a Shakespeare village with a house similar to this one . Thank you!!
Thank you for filming this. I went to England in 2015 for a short holiday and on a day tour, visited the Cotswolds and a really ancient round house, a real rarity. We don't have ancient buildings in Australia; although there are ancient aboriginal paintings on rock walls, which is pretty cool. Very interesting.
I love these places. The National Trust is a wonderful organisation. I live in Egypt, an expat, and any time I visit the UK I always visit a National Trust property. I found this talk very interesting. Thank you.
Very enjoyable! Thank you for posting this. I would love to see all of this in person one day, but I know I shall not live that long, so this is the next best thing. Thank you again! 😊
Loved this video! I’m fascinated by Early English and, over here, Early American architecture. I was blessed to be able to travel to England back in 2003. I was overwhelmed, as I expected, by all the old homes, castles, churches, etc. Hope to get back one day with my family. Till then, I love watching these videos on UA-cam. Thanks for sharing.
Your video takes me back almost 30 years to when I camped in Alfriston at the start of my Duke of Edinburgh camping trip. Now I want to go back- probably not in the same small tent that three of us crammed into back then though!
Very historical; Thank you for showing this incredible house. My husband's family came from Kent; I loved looking at these villages when I was living in England and the way the older stone buildings were built.
What an embarrassing retrograde piece of sh##. In reality, it has a grass roof and mud walls typical 3rd world style African architecture. How does this dump compare in any way to the architect-designed magnificent Romano British buildings that were built a thousand years earlier in Britain before the English "Vandals"burnt them all down and plunged Europe into the dark ages for a thousand years?
@@aevans-jl9ymI clicked onto the video because I needed a break. This house doesn't compare to the 1350's home from around the time of the Black Death. It looked like someone tried to save the house the best "they" could.
Lovely to see this as I now reside in Scotland and know Alfriston from visiting when I used to live in Kent where I hail from. The UK is so diverse with it's architecture. Lovely video. Thank you 😊
The flooring is very intriguing. Not sure if you have ever made "plastic" from milk using milk and vinegar heating on the stove, releasing the casein, you can mold it and let it dry to a fairly rock hard consistency. I would imagine adding some substrate like chalk to the mix would create an even harder substance. I would enjoy watching you try to recreate that flooring on a small scale as a little experiment. Love your videos.
Better than the alternative, which was to mix cow dung with the earth. That was part of the "daub" in wattle and daub, and also part of cob, which one-storey cottages could be made from.
Well worth a visit, especially the garden. Forgot to mention that at tge back of the house past the gardens by the river there is a path that you can walk along.
If it had indoor running water, electricity and internet, I'd live there. What a wonderful house. You can tell it had 'good bones', so it spruced up very nicely. I wonder what the people of 1350 would think of the shape of the house and of the world today, if they could time travel and come and visit. I also notice this house seemed to have many more windows, than what I would think would be a typical house of the era. I liked the lead lined, triangle shaped glass window panes.
try living without electricity, running water and internet for a while. it might do you good. if we lived more sustainable, our planet could stand a chance.
Nice, pleasant and interesting narration. I enjoyed that. Thanks. Having gone on to look at other videos I felt I had to come back and edit this post to say that I actually felt better, happier within myself for having watched this! Thanks again.
That was absolutely lovely. Really interesting and nicely narrated. Oh my, it did look a sorry state in that final picture, it’s amazing how well it has been restored.
Anyone living in the South East of England would probably find it not too far to travel to the Weald & Downland Museum in West Sussex. You can walk around inside the buildings and there are a fair few of them, spaced apart. Take a picnic on a nice day. I think the train station is very near.
I'm so amazed that a building that old and fragile could survive and look so nice. Of course, if it weren't for the National Trust, it would be nothing but weed and bush covered rubble by now. I'm glad there are people out there who appreciate the historic and aesthetic value of old places and things - and work hard to protect them.
This isn't necessarily true! About 25% of Britain's housing stock is over 100 years old, and much of that hundreds of years old. The vast majority is privately owned. Much of it will have been, over the years, through cycles of care and neglect (often related to agricultural depressions and the movement of people from rural to urban areas during the Industrial Revolution). Many properties were rescued by private individuals, or organisations other than the National Trust, and still stand. Admittedly, most won't be quite as old as this one, but some are! Very old properties, and/or properties of significant historic or architectural value have, since the mid-20th century, been protected by the 'listing' system, so if this had been rescued by someone other than the NT it would in any case now be protected in perpetuity.
I am so sorry to say that I live in an absolutely soulless and dreadful part of Canada where anything more than 50 years is considered old and is destroyed for throughly horrible and toxic modern buildings. Seeing this made me gasp in wonderment, it really is exciting and an incredible treasure
WONDERFUL, thank you for showing this charming little house/garden. It was in a shocking state before, am surprised it survived at all over many centuries... if only the walls could talk. X:)
Oak, chalk, and mud were the only materiels available on site for frame and walls, with reeds and straw for the roof. ...... They made an excellent job from what they had. In Devon, there are cob houses, where the foundations and about a foot of wall are stone, and the walls are made of dried mud. ...... The walls are much thicker than framed-house walls, and thus much warmer, and provided that both head and footings are kept dry, last for hundreds of years.
Plus lime and cattle dung, I think. Plain mud and chalk would disintegrate in the rain, and the other two ingredients hardened and waterproofed the mix, from what I have read.
And that old oak gets as hard as iron down the years. I went to the King's Head in York one day a year after a major flood and you could see the water line up near the ceiling. The owner said the wood wouldn't rot at its great age because it was so hard.
I have an aunt and uncle who live in Worcester, and half of their house is a cottage that was built in the 1500s. It has the original inglenook, and a whacking great oak post holding up the roof in the middle of the loungeroom, set directly into the ground below. As a visitor from Down Under, the age of so many buildings, and the fact that people are still living in them, blew my mind. (Also, I got good at ducking low doorways and negotiating very steep, very small stairs.)
@@pinkiesue849 Well, I'm 170cm (about 5'8 in the old money), and I had to duck, especially doors above ground floor level, by a couple of cm. My husband is a cm shorter, and he had to duck some of them too.
As an American….that’s exactly how I think! Mind boggling just how old these are with people still living or working in them. We have a couple built in 1600 places here on east coast but only a few.
How lovely of you to post this house tour video. I have been researching into the domestic structures and architecture of the segneurial Anglo-Normans and Normans of the c. 1100s. What I discovered, as can be seen in articles by Edward Impey, was astonishingly impressive stone buildings. Then I discovered that the Swiss have a building, apparently, verifiably commissioned by Constantine in the 300s!
That is an amazing original survivor, they are very rare this old. Looks Tudor style but obviously much earlier.. Happy to see it was restored before it collapsed. Thanks for the tour.
I just ran across this video many years after it was posted. This is a very interesting building! What struck me most was how similar it is to many very early houses in New England from the first period of settlement, particularly in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. I know these houses were built some 300 years after the Clergy House, but many of the timber framing techniques are identical to those used here, as are the leaded glass windows, wrought iron fixtures, and some of the ornamental details. A major differences is that all New England houses were built with great central chimneys of stone or brick opening into several rooms on all floors -- a technology I assume was not yet available for any but the very wealthy in 14th-century Sussex. For that reason, New England houses never had double-height halls. Another difference is that all surviving New England examples are covered with clapboards on the exterior, I think because of harsh weather conditions and the abundance of wood here.
The leaded glass windows were a later edition, probably 16th century. Medieval houses in Europe in the 14th century was an open window frame with vertical wooden posts, struts across the opening. It would have been pretty cold in winter, but great in summer.
I had a solid oak stool (Seat was one piece of oak and 1 inch thick) made by my father which had 4 legs attached using 'foreslice wedges' as you describe at 3.54mins. The stool was nearly 60 yaers old. A lodger in my house literally stole it from me when they were leaving. (Along with other valuable items) A stranger now has my stool in their house.
So interesting! I always wondered how people from so long ago figured out what to include in something like a floor, with the sour milk and chalk. I wouldn’t have thought of that!
I guess it was somewhere with chalky soil which they had trampled somewhat to flatten it to make the floor & some people accidently spilt some milk that was on the turn on it & then thought," Actually that has improved it," & told everyone else. They might have been wondering what to do with gone off milk anyway.
There’s a tithe barn near where I live in Somerset, and once a year in the summer, the owner empties everything out and a new floor is laid made of sour milk and chalk. It gets a new layer poured over 3 days and once set, the barn is restocked. For an earth floor it looks more like linoleum; I wonder if that’s where the idiom “there’s no use crying over spilt milk” originated.
The house I live in was built in 1760. That's not old by European standards, but living in Canada it's ancient! It was scheduled for destruction because they were planning on building some condos on the land. Anyway, I dismantled it and hauled it across the country, around 4000km and reassembled it. All the timbers and beams were marked with slashes across the joints to line up and Roman numerals that corresponded to one another. At the time it was built, many houses were built by ship builders at ship yards and then moved to their final location and reassembled after purchase so all those marks were necessary.
Yet another brilliant film Harry, very interesting. I love some of the joints,and all done by hand! Would the gardens have been used for growing fruit and vegetables originally or would gardening be something of a hobby back then? We are so lucky to have such rich history! Thanks for taking time to show this film Harry. Kind regards. N.
I actually know someone whose parents Inherited a house whose foundations were laid in the 9th century and is listed in doomsday and during its lifetime it was a monastery as well as the village hall as well as being the land masters abode. And not far, away upon the original grounds, next to an ancient roman road is a bar/ tavern that has been servicing travellers since at least 1620! All this in the area I grew up, on the Wirral Cheshire/ Merseyside England.
We have friends who live in a house that, in its original form was built a 1000 years ago, parts of the timber from that age are still within the building. It’s amazing to see.
I hope they'll do a video...so interesting!
Incredible! That's what they call Old World!
And yet, how many houses in the Middle East are well within the period B.C? Though most of those would be made of stone...
Soon it will be an Africanized slum, unfortunately.
That would be a great video to watch
Thank you for the close ups on the details of the house. Can you imagine that the farmer who built this home ever in his wildest imagination thought it would stand some 700 years?! Amazing.
The buildings of today will not last that long!
@@jeannemillsom9300 craftsmanship, respect and love through the years.😉
Joanna Mallory. I don’t think the houses built today will stand for 700 years, if indeed the
planet lasts that long even!🥴
I’m sure he never thought the house he built would still be standing, let alone, having people visit it on their phones, while sitting on the toilet… 🤯
This is priceless for someone like me who is disabled and can’t get to these locations. ❤️
Thanks I am pleased it's a way for people to see places, I am not so well so I do emphasise. I have done a few videos on the houses at the Weald and Downland museum in case they are of interest to you.
Sure more such videos on my channel 🥰
For me as well. I’m a special needs mom.
I pray that the state of our world these things stand the changes
There's a similar timberland house like this in West Bromich from about 1500, and one in Birmingham from about 1530.
As a New Zealander who drove 6872 km around Britain in 1996, I was very impressed by the level of effort I saw put into preserving a past which made my whole country's European heritage seem quite new. Barns, townhouses, dovecotes, and oasthouses all lovingly maintained.
Oh, and to the South of Auckland, we have an Alfriston. I have no doubt named after this one.
" Oh, and to the South of Auckland, we have an Alfriston. I have no doubt named after this one."
Probably , a lot of place names from the U.K are in other countries that were in the empire . I have only just started to really notice it
@@UserUser-ww2nj Definitely. I just looked it up.
Thank you Harry, i do love the old history of the UK. These amazing old buildings must be preserved and maintained 👍 Au
Thank goodness the National Trust took it on. So wonderful to see it as it was meant to be. Thanks.
I was born in the UK but live in the US now. I will always be fascinated by old Buildings and enjoyed seeing this house very much. I am glad it is still being taken care of. Thank you very much.
Glad you enjoyed it
I like your calm voice.
I miss England so much. It’s such a wonderful country. It’s so 'darling' - so soft and serving.
There is something magical about this part of England ❤
Thank you for this video and for your part in preserving this beautiful, romantic piece of history. I love England
All the best from the USA 🇺🇸
The 'before' and 'after' are dramatically different and wonderful to see the restoration of these old, these very old, buildings. Written history where I live is like last Tuesday to y'all.
Oh my. So wonderful. Thank you so much for sharing. My mom was born in tunbridge well, Kent and moved to America in her early 20's to be a nanny. I was lucky enough to travel back with her a few times and we went to a pub that was built in 1212. Anyway. Thanks again, Sara
myserenitycrafts Thanks Sara
I live in Tunbridge Wells, not born there, but live there now !
@@yasminmant2666 And at least you can spell it. 👍
built in 1212...I can't even imagine!
hey thats where my mum was born 1946!!!!!
It’s fascinating how something built with such temporary materials could last so long. Just imagine how much history went down within and around those walls.
Thank you for this lovely tour of a very old house. No things this old in the U S.
I cannot believe I have just now found this excellent video by Mr. Rogers. I really benefit from his eye and his attention to construction detail in early vernacular houses of his region of England. I am grateful for his posting videos.
Thanks very much Dale.
So interesting- thank you for sharing! And very cool that it was the first house acquired by the NT
Brought back lovely memories for me. I stayed there for a couple of nights many years ago with an old friend of mine for an opera at glyndebourne . We visited the church and the gardens. Had a lovely time in Alfriston Really enjoyed your video.
Thanks Rosemary
Stunning historic house, just wonderful, love it ,thank you for showing us around 😊
Just beautiful. I love the UK
A beautiful old house in a lovely part of the world. The NT staff were also very attentive and enthusiastic the last time we visited. Well worth a visit to the house and village.
There's a lot of these pumps in allotments here in the Netherlands. I never realised these were used indoors. I suppose they were put to another use once people got running water. Nice video, Harry. It's great to see these beautiful villages in the UK, there's a lot of history there.
Thanks
My great grandmother used one in her house in Texas until the 1930's.
I've seen one in use indoor in the mid -60s. (Denmark)
My grandfather had one in his house. That's in belgium, he lived there until he died in 2019.
@@harryrogers You just now got around to replying to a 7 year old comment? Poor Oleg is probably dead by now.
This is a lovely, lovely, presentation! What a treat is is to see this house both outside and inside. It sparks my imagination about the lives lived here. I wish you had spent more time viewing the interior. I am fascinated with the fire pit right in the center of the main hall. i can see the value of the smoke filling the high spaces, I imagine it kept the insects and vermin at bay , especially in the winter..no mice dropping off the thatch onto the people? I live across the pond in the US, but i have visited in the Victoria, BC area. We toured a re-creation of a Shakespeare village with a house similar to this one . Thank you!!
Thanks very much.
Thank you for filming this. I went to England in 2015 for a short holiday and on a day tour, visited the Cotswolds and a really ancient round house, a real rarity. We don't have ancient buildings in Australia; although there are ancient aboriginal paintings on rock walls, which is pretty cool. Very interesting.
Thanks
Hello Helene how’re you doing?
an original roundhouse???? wow
Thank you very much for showing off this medieval treasure. 'Twere a wonder to behold, and you, the Best of Guides. Well done!
I'm from No. Nevada..I love those wonderful homes thank you!
Glad you like them!
Lovely video of Alfriston. I visited there once and hiked from there along the 7 sisters to Eastbourne. Brings back great memories of my salad days!
Absolutely beautiful! Amazing workmanship!
I love these places. The National Trust is a wonderful organisation. I live in Egypt, an expat, and any time I visit the UK I always visit a National Trust property. I found this talk very interesting. Thank you.
Very enjoyable! Thank you for posting this. I would love to see all of this in person one day, but I know I shall not live that long, so this is the next best thing. Thank you again! 😊
I love to learn about the European history it's very interesting, thanks for sharing 👍🇺🇲
I don’t think the British consider themselves to be European.
Loved this video! I’m fascinated by Early English and, over here, Early American architecture. I was blessed to be able to travel to England back in 2003. I was overwhelmed, as I expected, by all the old homes, castles, churches, etc. Hope to get back one day with my family. Till then, I love watching these videos on UA-cam. Thanks for sharing.
Your video takes me back almost 30 years to when I camped in Alfriston at the start of my Duke of Edinburgh camping trip. Now I want to go back- probably not in the same small tent that three of us crammed into back then though!
How lovely to be shown around this small house, I have always wanted to visit it but have never managed to.
Very historical; Thank you for showing this incredible house. My husband's family came from Kent; I loved looking at these villages when I was living in England and the way the older stone buildings were built.
No idea why this popped up on my feed, but great to watch. Native of Sussex who has lived all over the world. Alfriston is one of my favourite places.
That house is a beautifully nice piece of history. 1350 is so long ago.
What an embarrassing retrograde piece of sh##. In reality, it has a grass roof and mud walls typical 3rd world style African architecture. How does this dump compare in any way to the architect-designed magnificent Romano British buildings that were built a thousand years earlier in Britain before the English "Vandals"burnt them all down and
plunged Europe into the dark ages for a thousand years?
@@aevans-jl9ymI clicked onto the video because I needed a break. This house doesn't compare to the 1350's home from around the time of the Black Death. It looked like someone tried to save the house the best "they" could.
Lovely to see this as I now reside in Scotland and know Alfriston from visiting when I used to live in Kent where I hail from. The UK is so diverse with it's architecture. Lovely video. Thank you 😊
The flooring is very intriguing. Not sure if you have ever made "plastic" from milk using milk and vinegar heating on the stove, releasing the casein, you can mold it and let it dry to a fairly rock hard consistency. I would imagine adding some substrate like chalk to the mix would create an even harder substance. I would enjoy watching you try to recreate that flooring on a small scale as a little experiment. Love your videos.
Michael Brust Thanks Michael - sounds like a good experiment!
Very interesting
Better than the alternative, which was to mix cow dung with the earth. That was part of the "daub" in wattle and daub, and also part of cob, which one-storey cottages could be made from.
You had 7 year's, did it turn out alright?
Beads are still made of this milk stuff.
Well worth a visit, especially the garden. Forgot to mention that at tge back of the house past the gardens by the river there is a path that you can walk along.
If it had indoor running water, electricity and internet, I'd live there. What a wonderful house. You can tell it had 'good bones', so it spruced up very nicely. I wonder what the people of 1350 would think of the shape of the house and of the world today, if they could time travel and come and visit. I also notice this house seemed to have many more windows, than what I would think would be a typical house of the era. I liked the lead lined, triangle shaped glass window panes.
try living without electricity, running water and internet for a while. it might do you good. if we lived more sustainable, our planet could stand a chance.
Nice, pleasant and interesting narration. I enjoyed that. Thanks.
Having gone on to look at other videos I felt I had to come back and edit this post to say that I actually felt better, happier within myself for having watched this! Thanks again.
What a beautiful little house! It is so well constructed.
Thanks for taking us along!
If I got to live in such a historic village I wouldn't need to go to heaven.
I used to go to this village with my nan and grandad. Happy memories of Sunday drives. Miss you both.....
Its absolutly beautiful. I prefer it to the big manor houses. Its an archytypical house.
That was absolutely lovely. Really interesting and nicely narrated.
Oh my, it did look a sorry state in that final picture, it’s amazing how well it has been restored.
Thanks Julie.
So glad they were able to save such a beautiful place. Thanks mate.
Anyone living in the South East of England would probably find it not too far to travel to the Weald & Downland Museum in West Sussex. You can walk around inside the buildings and there are a fair few of them, spaced apart. Take a picnic on a nice day. I think the train station is very near.
I'm so amazed that a building that old and fragile could survive and look so nice. Of course, if it weren't for the National Trust, it would be nothing but weed and bush covered rubble by now. I'm glad there are people out there who appreciate the historic and aesthetic value of old places and things - and work hard to protect them.
This isn't necessarily true! About 25% of Britain's housing stock is over 100 years old, and much of that hundreds of years old. The vast majority is privately owned. Much of it will have been, over the years, through cycles of care and neglect (often related to agricultural depressions and the movement of people from rural to urban areas during the Industrial Revolution). Many properties were rescued by private individuals, or organisations other than the National Trust, and still stand. Admittedly, most won't be quite as old as this one, but some are!
Very old properties, and/or properties of significant historic or architectural value have, since the mid-20th century, been protected by the 'listing' system, so if this had been rescued by someone other than the NT it would in any case now be protected in perpetuity.
@@clairenoon4070 That's wonderful! Thanks for the information.
I have to say that as an American the
age, and history, of English architecture
(and art) is definitely one thing I’m jealous of.
I am so sorry to say that I live in an absolutely soulless and dreadful part of Canada where anything more than 50 years is considered old and is destroyed for throughly horrible and toxic modern buildings. Seeing this made me gasp in wonderment, it really is exciting and an incredible treasure
perhaps consider finding like minded people that want to keep and maintain beautiful buildings, it elevates the quality of daily living a lot...
WONDERFUL, thank you for showing this charming little house/garden. It was in a shocking state before, am surprised it survived at all over many centuries... if only the walls could talk. X:)
Oak, chalk, and mud were the only materiels available on site for frame and walls, with reeds and straw for the roof. ...... They made an excellent job from what they had.
In Devon, there are cob houses, where the foundations and about a foot of wall are stone, and the walls are made of dried mud. ...... The walls are much thicker than framed-house walls, and thus much warmer, and provided that both head and footings are kept dry, last for hundreds of years.
Plus lime and cattle dung, I think. Plain mud and chalk would disintegrate in the rain, and the other two ingredients hardened and waterproofed the mix, from what I have read.
@@angr3819 Indeed, I forgot to add the chopped up straw in cob.
Our ancestors were no fools!
The carpentry and joinery is fantastic. I enjoyed that video thank you ☘️👍
Absolutely fascinating, if only those old rafters and joists could speak, thanks for sharing 🙏
And that old oak gets as hard as iron down the years. I went to the King's Head in York one day a year after a major flood and you could see the water line up near the ceiling. The owner said the wood wouldn't rot at its great age because it was so hard.
Really enjoyed this , thank you so much for your efforts.
Thank you so much for sharing❤️ such beautiful history & heritage, 6minutes seemed like 6 seconds
Thankyou for sharing this amazing house 🇦🇺
Thanks Jinja....interesting we share surnames!
I have an aunt and uncle who live in Worcester, and half of their house is a cottage that was built in the 1500s. It has the original inglenook, and a whacking great oak post holding up the roof in the middle of the loungeroom, set directly into the ground below. As a visitor from Down Under, the age of so many buildings, and the fact that people are still living in them, blew my mind. (Also, I got good at ducking low doorways and negotiating very steep, very small stairs.)
How tall do you guess the doorways are? thanks
@@pinkiesue849 Well, I'm 170cm (about 5'8 in the old money), and I had to duck, especially doors above ground floor level, by a couple of cm. My husband is a cm shorter, and he had to duck some of them too.
As an American….that’s exactly how I think! Mind boggling just how old these are with people still living or working in them. We have a couple built in 1600 places here on east coast but only a few.
Thank you for that lovely, instructive video. It’s earned you a new subscriber.
Well done mate.
This was very interesting, and easy to watch. Great editing.
How lovely of you to post this house tour video. I have been researching into the domestic structures and architecture of the segneurial Anglo-Normans and Normans of the c. 1100s. What I discovered, as can be seen in articles by Edward Impey, was astonishingly impressive stone buildings. Then I discovered that the Swiss have a building, apparently, verifiably commissioned by Constantine in the 300s!
Thanks very much. I have also posted videos of the Weald and Downland Museum houses incase that is of interest to you.
Thank you for taking the time to put together these fascinating videos.
That was fascinating! Thank you so much for sharing😊
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is simply lovely…thank you for making this video.
My husband’s step father lived in Sussex and had the surname Allfrey from which Alfriston (Allfrey’s town) gets it’s name. Lovely little video.
That is an amazing original survivor, they are very rare this old. Looks Tudor style but obviously much earlier.. Happy to see it was restored before it collapsed. Thanks for the tour.
Thank you 🐱 that was wonderful 🌹 your voice is very pleasant 🐱💃🌹
This was wonderful, thank you, I loved that you focused on details in this way.
Thanks Jean.
I so enjoyed this Harry, thank you I’ve also subscribed so looking forward to more.
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I just ran across this video many years after it was posted. This is a very interesting building! What struck me most was how similar it is to many very early houses in New England from the first period of settlement, particularly in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. I know these houses were built some 300 years after the Clergy House, but many of the timber framing techniques are identical to those used here, as are the leaded glass windows, wrought iron fixtures, and some of the ornamental details. A major differences is that all New England houses were built with great central chimneys of stone or brick opening into several rooms on all floors -- a technology I assume was not yet available for any but the very wealthy in 14th-century Sussex. For that reason, New England houses never had double-height halls. Another difference is that all surviving New England examples are covered with clapboards on the exterior, I think because of harsh weather conditions and the abundance of wood here.
Thanks that is very interesting.
The leaded glass windows were a later edition, probably 16th century. Medieval houses in Europe in the 14th century was an open window frame with vertical wooden posts, struts across the opening. It would have been pretty cold in winter, but great in summer.
Lovely footage, narration and story!
Very enjoyable video, and many unknown facts.
I had a solid oak stool (Seat was one piece of oak and 1 inch thick) made by my father which had 4 legs attached using 'foreslice wedges' as you describe at 3.54mins. The stool was nearly 60 yaers old. A lodger in my house literally stole it from me when they were leaving. (Along with other valuable items) A stranger now has my stool in their house.
Beautiful house. Thanks for sharing. ❤
Another great video Harry, Thanks!
So interesting! I always wondered how people from so long ago figured out what to include in something like a floor, with the sour milk and chalk. I wouldn’t have thought of that!
I guess it was somewhere with chalky soil which they had trampled somewhat to flatten it to make the floor & some people accidently spilt some milk that was on the turn on it & then thought," Actually that has improved it," & told everyone else. They might have been wondering what to do with gone off milk anyway.
@@sarahstrong7174 That makes sense. Probably something like that!
It must have smelt interesting for a while when it was newly done.
@@rjjcms1 Everything smelt "interesting" back then, I imagine.
I know they made paint out of milk too.
They don't build 'em like they used to, really! Very quaint and interesting. Thanks.
A most enjoyable video...Thank you.😎😃
Thank you…this was great 👍 I’m glad I found your video.
Stunning building. How have I missed this for so long?!! Jut subscribed, thanks x
Now this is the kind of house I’d buy if I ever won the lottery. It’s stunning. Thank you for the tour. I’ve just found your channel and subscribed.
Thanks for subbing!
I grew up just down the road from this place. I am so glad the old church and house are still standing. Alfriston was my playground for a while.
There’s a tithe barn near where I live in Somerset, and once a year in the summer, the owner empties everything out and a new floor is laid made of sour milk and chalk. It gets a new layer poured over 3 days and once set, the barn is restocked. For an earth floor it looks more like linoleum; I wonder if that’s where the idiom “there’s no use crying over spilt milk” originated.
Just watched your video. So interesting. 😊
Fascinating and most excellent video. Also, I love your voice and hope to see more of your videos.
Nice video , a pleasure to watch thank you .
The house I live in was built in 1760. That's not old by European standards, but living in Canada it's ancient!
It was scheduled for destruction because they were planning on building some condos on the land. Anyway, I dismantled it and hauled it across the country, around 4000km and reassembled it.
All the timbers and beams were marked with slashes across the joints to line up and Roman numerals that corresponded to one another. At the time it was built, many houses were built by ship builders at ship yards and then moved to their final location and reassembled after purchase so all those marks were necessary.
That's wonderful ...what a story.
Thank you for the very interesting tour. Peace be unto you.
You have a really nice voice (reminds me of 1970s children's TV) which really suits the house actually.
Yet another brilliant film Harry, very interesting. I love some of the joints,and all done by hand! Would the gardens have been used for growing fruit and vegetables originally or would gardening be something of a hobby back then? We are so lucky to have such rich history! Thanks for taking time to show this film Harry. Kind regards. N.
Ok but you completely overlooked what is obviously the most charismatic character in those parts, the sauntering doggo.
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Excellent & thank you very much for posting......
They were still living very comfortably back in 1350's!
i need visit this place..my god......greetings from croatia
I have visited there- thx fir the memory
Thanks for showing us through.