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Speke Hall

📍 Merseyside, England

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About

Speke Hall is a wood-framed wattle-and-daub Tudor manor house in Speke, Liverpool, England. It is one of the finest surviving examples of its kind. It is owned by the National Trust and is a Grade I listed building.

Built between 1530 and 1598 by the Norris family, one of the best-preserved Tudor half-timbered houses in England. The exterior's bold black-and-white patterns are quintessentially Tudor. Like Baddesley Clinton, it contains priest holes from the era of Catholic persecution — the Norris family were staunch recusants. The Great Hall dates from the 1530s, and the plasterwork and panelling are largely original. Two ancient yew trees in the courtyard are over 500 years old. National Trust since 1943.