The Feathers, Ludlow, Shropshire - texture JoesSistah
Feathers Hotel is a hotel and historical inn opposite The Bull Hotel in Ludlow, southern Shropshire, England. Built in 1619 by a local lawyer named Rees Jones. It is a Tudor-style half-timbered building, and is noted for its Jacobean furnishings. It is a Grade I listed building, listed on 15 April 1954, and is one of approximately 500 listed buildings in Ludlow, but one of its best known.
The timber facaded hotel has motifs of ostrich feathers and hence the name "Feathers Hotel", which was designed initially as a private home by Rees Jones, an attorney. The feathers also represented the traditional insignia of the Prince of Wales who later became Charles I; it also highlighted the town's liking for the monarchy
The building was completed in 1619 by Rees Jones, practicing attorney from Pembrokeshire who had come to Ludlow to pursue his profession at the “Council of the Marches. It is thought that during the English Civil War Royalist soldiers would have lodged there. After the war, Thomas Jones, son of the builder converted it into an inn. It served as an inn for some 200 years and a cock-fighting venue and became the Feathers Hotel in 1863. The Cambrian Archaeological Association said in 1899, "this is much the most picturesque of all the half-timbered houses now remaining in Ludlow. In adapting it for use as a hotel, none of the old work has been tampered with. The New York Times reportedly named it the "most handsome inn in the world".
The Feathers, Ludlow, Shropshire - texture JoesSistah
Feathers Hotel is a hotel and historical inn opposite The Bull Hotel in Ludlow, southern Shropshire, England. Built in 1619 by a local lawyer named Rees Jones. It is a Tudor-style half-timbered building, and is noted for its Jacobean furnishings. It is a Grade I listed building, listed on 15 April 1954, and is one of approximately 500 listed buildings in Ludlow, but one of its best known.
The timber facaded hotel has motifs of ostrich feathers and hence the name "Feathers Hotel", which was designed initially as a private home by Rees Jones, an attorney. The feathers also represented the traditional insignia of the Prince of Wales who later became Charles I; it also highlighted the town's liking for the monarchy
The building was completed in 1619 by Rees Jones, practicing attorney from Pembrokeshire who had come to Ludlow to pursue his profession at the “Council of the Marches. It is thought that during the English Civil War Royalist soldiers would have lodged there. After the war, Thomas Jones, son of the builder converted it into an inn. It served as an inn for some 200 years and a cock-fighting venue and became the Feathers Hotel in 1863. The Cambrian Archaeological Association said in 1899, "this is much the most picturesque of all the half-timbered houses now remaining in Ludlow. In adapting it for use as a hotel, none of the old work has been tampered with. The New York Times reportedly named it the "most handsome inn in the world".