Qualla: Caverswall Castle https://qualla.com/caverswall-castle en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:15 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/q/t/caverswall-castle-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Caverswall Castle https://qualla.com/caverswall-castle Caverswall Castle: Introduction https://qualla.com/caverswall-castle/ Photo credit Samuel Hall Carter (1800-1889), Public domain. In 2013 the owner of Caverswall Castle was fined £17,000 and ordered to pay £100,000 in costs for the crime of letting people stay there on holiday. Robin MacDonald had paid £1.7 million for the place in 2006 and spent another £1 million on renovations, only to discover that the planning department of Staffordshire Moorlands District Council took the strictest possible view of what he could and could not do with his eighteen bedrooms, thirteen bathrooms, and dungeon. By 2017 he told reporters that for £1 he would not buy the castle again. By 2020 the council had refused two further applications, including one that simply requested permission for school groups to visit. The enforcement notices remained in place: no visitors, no activities, no guests, not even a party. The castle finally sold in April 2021. The price was not disclosed.

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/q/t/caverswall-castle-wp/gcqt-caverswall-castle-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Caverswall Castle: Licence to Crenellate https://qualla.com/caverswall-castle/ Photo credit Samuel Hall Carter (1800-1889), Public domain. In 1275 a member of the Caverswall family asked Edward I for permission to crenellate his manor house, and Edward, in the careful fashion of medieval kings managing private fortifications, said yes. The resulting castle was approximately rectangular, with four angle towers, a kee...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/q/t/caverswall-castle-wp/gcqt-caverswall-castle-licence-to-crenellate.mp3 0:06 2 full Caverswall Castle: Cradock Rebuilds https://qualla.com/caverswall-castle/ Photo credit Samuel Hall Carter (1800-1889), Public domain. In 1615 Matthew Cradock, a Stafford wool merchant who had served as the first mayor of Stafford the year before and would become Member of Parliament for the town in 1621, bought the ruined castle. He rebuilt within the medieval walls in a thoroughly Jacobean style, the resulting...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/q/t/caverswall-castle-wp/gcqt-caverswall-castle-cradock-rebuilds.mp3 0:06 3 full Caverswall Castle: Convents, Tycoons, and Refusals https://qualla.com/caverswall-castle/ Photo credit Samuel Hall Carter (1800-1889), Public domain. After the Wedgwoods came W.E. Bowers, who purchased it in 1891 and spent decades on improvements. His successor W.A. Bowers sold it in 1933 to the Sisters of the Holy Ghost. In 1965 the sisters sold to another order, the Daughters of the House of Mary. When they left in 1977 the ...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/q/t/caverswall-castle-wp/gcqt-caverswall-castle-convents-tycoons-and-refusals.mp3 0:06 4 full Caverswall Castle: What Remains https://qualla.com/caverswall-castle/ Photo credit Samuel Hall Carter (1800-1889), Public domain. What remains at Caverswall is unusual: a complete early-Jacobean mansion sitting like an architectural fossil inside genuinely medieval walls. The 13th-century curtain wall still encloses the site. The angle towers still stand where the Caverswall family raised them. The 1615 man...

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