Ancient High House
The Ancient High House is an Elizabethan town house located on the main street in Stafford. The house was constructed in 1595 by the Dorrington family, from local oak, which anecdotally came from the nearby Doxey Wood, and is the largest timber framed town house in England.Photo: Stocksy, Public domain.
- Type: Museum
- Description: historic house in Stafford, England, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “High House”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include St Mary’s Church, Stafford and St Chad’s Church, Stafford.
St Mary’s Church, Stafford
Church
Photo: David Neill, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Mary's Church, Stafford is a Grade I listed parish church in Stafford, Staffordshire, England.
St Chad’s Church, Stafford
Church
Photo: Stephen Pearce, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Chad's Church, on Greengate Street in the centre of Stafford, is a Grade II* listed Anglican church. Saint Chad, who died in 672, was the first Bishop of Lichfield.
Church Lane Evangelical Church
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church Lane Evangelical Church is situated 390 feet southwest of Ancient High House.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Stafford and Doxey.
Stafford
Photo: Stocksy, Public domain.
Stafford is a market town and the county town of Staffordshire, England. It is located about 15 miles south of Stoke-on-Trent, 15 miles north of Wolverhampton and 24 miles north-west of Birmingham.
Doxey
Village
Doxey is a village and civil parish in the borough of Stafford in Staffordshire, England; it is a north-western suburb of Stafford. It became a civil parish on 1 April 2005.
Derrington
Village
Derrington is a village west of the town of Stafford, in Staffordshire, England. For population details from the 2011 census see under Seighford. Derrington had an 18th-century pub, The Red Lion, but it has ceased trading. Derrington is situated 2 miles west of Ancient High House.
Ancient High House
- Categories: historic house museum, house, local authority museum, building, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Stafford District, Staffordshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.8063° or 52° 48′ 23″ northLongitude
-2.11716° or 2° 7′ 2″ westOpen location code
9C4VRV4M+G4OpenStreetMap ID
way 217786968OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumWikidata ID
Q4752857
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In Other Languages
“Ancient High House” goes by many names.
- Japanese: “エインシェント・ハイ・ハウス”
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