Elizabethan manor that was carted to top of hill is for sale at £1,900,000

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Elizabethan manor that was carted to top of hill is for sale at £1,900,000
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: ‘I have been so happy here and have always realised that we are just custodians of the houses we live in. It’s time now to pass the house on.’

In the 1960s, an expert team managed to dismantle and reconstruct the ancient site further up hill to save them from erosion caused by the rising waters of the Aswan High Dam. Beforehand, workers removed five chimneys, the inglenook fireplaces and several interior walls to make the timber-framed building lighter.A trench had to be cut around the building to allow wooden beams to slide underneath the house, before picking up the 170 ton property using hydraulic lifts.

According to the Mail, around 500,000 people are thought to have shown up to watch the spectacle over the year, and Mrs Hodge started charging people six pence.She raised £3,000 which she donated to help with restoration work at her local All Saints Church.One night, in a strange twist of fate, a strong storm caused a giant oak tree to come crashing down where the house used to be situated.

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