Many striking manor houses were build in England during the Tudor Age, a time of relative peace and prosperity. The abolition of the monasteries meant that vast estates were broken up and sold to secular landowners, who built houses to reflect their new status. In the Midlands, wood was the main building material, and the gentry flaunted their wealth by using timber panelling, often decorated with ancient motifs such as vines and trefoils, for flamboyant effect.

Little Moreton Hall, also known as Old Moreton Hall is a moated half-timbered manor house in Cheshire, England. The earliest parts of the house were built for the prosperous Cheshire landowner William Moreton in about 1504–08. The house remained in the possession of the Moreton family for almost 450 years, until ownership was transferred to the National Trust in 1938.

Little Moreton Hall and its sandstone bridge across the moat are recorded in the National Heritage List for England  as a designated Grade I Listed building.   The house has been fully restored and is open to the public from April to December each year.

The building is highly irregular, with three asymmetrical ranges forming a small, rectangular cobbled courtyard.   The highlights of Little Moreton Hall are:

• The Great Hall (1504-1508) is the oldest part of the house and in Tudor times was the most important.
• The Long Gallery was one of the last parts to built (1560-62). It has original plasterwork portraying Destiny and Fortune.
• A much-loved feature of Little Moreton Hall’s garden for fifty years, the Knot Garden is formed of box hedging spanning hundreds of metres.
• The moat was for decoration. It surrounds a knot garden laid out in 1972 using plants known to have been available in Tudor times.