{"id":214798,"date":"2022-02-21T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/this-historic-500-year-old-english-manor-just-hit-the-market-for-17-5-million"},"modified":"2022-02-21T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T17:30:00","slug":"this-historic-500-year-old-english-manor-just-hit-the-market-for-17-5-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/this-historic-500-year-old-english-manor-just-hit-the-market-for-17-5-million","title":{"rendered":"This Historic, 500-Year-Old English Manor Just Hit the Market for $17.5 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Click here to read the full article. The UK is filled with historic landmarks that boast wild tales, but few come close to the unusual story behind the estate called Cedar Court , set on Coombe Hill Road in the town of Kingston-upon-Thames. The grade-II listed estate (a distinction in the UK that denotes homes&#8217; historical and architectural significance) dates back to the 1480s, when it was first built for a wealthy salt merchant. The home was initially constructed on River Colne in the town of Colchester, one of Britain&#8217;s oldest recorded towns, where it remained until 1910. Now this is where it gets interesting: In 1910, an antiquarian bought the home for &#163;350, Mansion Global reports , and spent nearly 10 times the amount he purchased it for to painstakingly dismantle and rebuild the home brick-by-brick on a plot of land 70 miles away in Kingston-upon-Thames. During this time, the home was fully rebuilt to its original glory. Now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click here to read the full article. The UK is filled with historic landmarks that boast wild tales, but few come close to the unusual story behind the estate called<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,47],"tags":[27,463,49],"class_list":["post-214798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-real-estate","tag-economy","tag-landscaping","tag-real-estate"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}