Acquired: 1509, by inheritance
Langley manor had come into Crown hands in the late fifteenth century. It was not far from the larger royal property of Woodstock and Henry VII visited it frequently and had additional building works carried on there. Henry VIII continued royal visits to the site and paid for repairs to the works. Eventually the manor was alienated from Crown properties and became the possession of the Earl of Danby later in the sixteenth century. A nineteenth-century farmhouse now occupies the site.
Surviving records indicate that Langley had at least two courtyards, and a suite of rooms for the king and for the queen, each with lodgings, a “wardrobe,” a staircase and gardens. A portion of one wing of the Tudor manor is incorporated into the farmhouse on the site, including a two-storied bay window with the intials “H.E.” (for Henry and Elizabeth) on the upper portion. The same initials appear in stone panels on the house front.