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This is a list of National Trust properties in England, including any stately home, historic house, castle, abbey, museum or other property in the care of the National Trust in England. Bedfordshire [ edit ]
It was converted to offices in the 20th century, and in March 2014 it was being offered for sale. [7] Category A listed building. [6] Craiglockhart Castle: Tower house 15th century Craiglockhart Castle was a square tower house, built in the 15th century by the Lockharts of Lee. [8] Only the vaulted ground floor and parts of the first floor remain.
This is intended to be as full a list as possible of country houses, castles, palaces, other stately homes, and manor houses in the United Kingdom and the Channel Islands; any architecturally notable building which has served as a residence for a significant family or a notable figure in history.
A preserved example of a Norman motte and bailey castle in England. The surviving stone keep and curtain wall date from around the 14th century. From after the Norman Conquest of 1066, it was the caput of the feudal barony of Totnes. The first castle was built by the Breton Juhel of Totnes out of wood. Upper Plym Valley: Earthworks: Bronze Age ...
Motte-and-bailey castles were the most common type of castle in England following the Norman Conquest. [3] A shell keep was a motte with a stone wall rather than a wooden stockade on top; there would have been no tower within the walls. [4] Four of Greater Manchester's castles are scheduled monuments: Buckton, Bury, Radcliffe Tower, and Watch Hill.
The castle, located in Great Barrington, Mass., has hit the market for a kingly $8.995 million. (Think that's expensive? (Think that's expensive? It initially hit the market for $15 million in 2007.)
Blaise Castle is a folly built in 1766 near Henbury in Bristol, England. The castle sits within the Blaise Castle Estate, which also includes Blaise Castle House, a Grade II* listed 18th-century mansion house. The folly castle is also Grade II* listed and ancillary buildings including the orangery and dairy also have listings.
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