Hmmm, I do not know actually what to tell… The manor first is mentioned on documents in 15th century.
Our house is part of the manor - castle is 2 miles away from here. Our house was where the reeve (estate manager) lived so actually it was the working centre of the manor.
Castle is new, built at the end of 19th century, then demolished in 1905 during the farmer riots, then renovated, and now there is the local primary school located. Picture here:
http://www.tip.edu.lv/zemite/skola1.jpg
In our place there was a huge stone build barn for 500 dairy cows which was partly destroyed during the WWI (The one end survived, it is where Puika is living now), the stall (it was rebuild and turned into tractor car park during soviet era here, but old walls have survived and in the one end is also old forge where farrier had worked), and under it there is a huge wine-cellar, which needs to be cleaned out - soviets filled it with granit rocks and sand by some unknown reasons).
Under our living house there is a running spring with beautiful water, so there is a well that we are using instead of tap water that we do not have 
Foundations are 9ft deep, solid granit rocks weighting few tonns each, so nobody can destroy that (really, a messile is needed there), walls are brick, nearly 3 ft thick, so also not easy to destroy.
House had an old red tile roof that was destroyed by soviets, replaced with asbestos, and now we had put the silly roofing on but at least within a distance it looks like a tile a bit.
All the original oak beams are in the perfect condition - it is my pride and joy. I also renovated the brick floor that was originally here, so living room with original arches now looks nearly as it was 200 years ago.
Sadly the huge bred aven was also destroyed by soviet “reconstruction”, but you can not have it all! Instead of that we just had build a simple open fire.
House has 8 running stoves and avens that must be fed during the winter, so about 10 m3 or wood we are burning here each month during the winter months.
Pastures you saw, grass is really rich as we have heavy red clay here - it is ideal also for garden trees like aples (trees grow slowly, but reach very interesting age - one apple tree we needed to cut down, and it was 180 years old - on sandy soil appletrees would never reach that age).
What else to tell?
Yes, this is my little paradise.
Shame on me.
