This stunning Tudor manor is the inspiration for A Christmas Murder. It was built on the foundations of a Saxon manor in the 15th and 16th centuries.
In 1703 a terrible storm resulted in the back of the house being buried in a huge landslip.
For the next 223 years the house remained covered in earth.
The Seeley family bought the manor in 1861. In 1914 General Jack Seely was sent to the western front with his horse, Warrior, who had been bred on the island.
In 1926 Jack moved into the manor. His architect son John, and his business partner Paul Paget, restored the house. They worked on their designs in ‘The Shack,’ a tiny home in miniature.
Mottistone Manor was left to the National Trust in 1963. Sophie Hunter held her wedding reception here with Benedict Cumberbatch on 14 February 2015.
