Wycoller Manor (2005)

Sara had a bad knee today, so she rode with me in the luggage van to see Wycoller Manor, a ruined house which was supposedly the inspiration for Ferndean. If it was a ruin in her era, it must also have been the inspiration for the end of Thornfield Hall, Mr. Rochester’s original house, a burned and blackened shell. I thought I could imagine this hall burned and broken, but it was quite a stretch on a bright sunny morning.