Acquired: 1509 (by inheritance)
Henry VIII’s father purchased Wanstead Hall and began building activity there. Under Henry VIII, some minor building continued, including repair work, in 1510–11 and later again in 1542–4. As particulars do not survive, and the house was pulled down in the eighteenth century, we have little knowledge of the house’s form. The park was paled and diked and stocked with red deer, and evidently the house was used as a hunting lodge. It left Crown possession under Edward VI.