The Epping hunting lodge of Queen Elizabeth I….
If, like me, you’re puzzled by this unusual, rather stark old building (which doesn’t look real or even English!) then this article explains:
“….Queen Elizabeth’s Hunting Lodge is a Grade II* listed building that has been saved as a museum. This old timber-framed and plastered building is a unique example of a Tudor ‘grand stand’. The sport-loving sovereign and associates could climb to the top floor to watch a drive past of the Forest deer….”
(The idiot in me promptly imagined deer casually giving the royal wave as they swooshed past in Rolls Royces….)
The hunting lodge is now linked to the first Queen Elizabeth, but actually started its life in the 12th century with Henry II. The building that is there now wasn’t Elizabeth’s either, but was commissioned by her father, Henry VIII.
Its unusual design is due to the need…
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Mid Anglia Group, Richard III Society 