Doorway to the Americas: One of Britain's finest Tudor homes where famed explorer planned 1607 Jamestown expedition to establish first English settlement in US hits market for £2.25m

One of Britain's finest Tudor homes where a historic 17th Century voyage to the US was planned has gone on the market for £2.25m.

Grade I listed Otley Hall in Suffolk was once home of explorer Bartholomew Gosnold who led the 1607 Jamestown expedition, which established the first English settlement in Virginia, US.

Its eye-catching oak panelling is reputed to have been moved from Henry VIII's lord chancellor Cardinal Wolsey's chambers at Hampton Court Palace.

In the wall of one of the bedrooms Tudor nails can be found from which silk tapestries were once suspended.

The spectacular 16th century moated property, in the idyllic village of Otley, was described by the scholar Sir Nikolaus Pevsner as 'perhaps the outstanding Tudor House in east Suffolk'.

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