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A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor in Europe. The house formed the administrative centre of a manor in the European feudal system; within its great hall were held the lord's manorial courts, communal meals with manorial tenants and great banquets.
Petworth House is a late 17th-century Grade I listed country house in the parish of Petworth, West Sussex, England. It was built in 1688 by Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, and altered in the 1870s to the design of the architect Anthony Salvin. [2] It contains intricate wood-carvings by Grinling Gibbons (d. 1721). It is the manor house of ...
Bonnettstown House; Bonnettstown Hall (Castle) Castle Blunden; Castlecomer Demesne; Castletown Cox; Danesfort House; Desart Court, near Cuffesgrange and Callan; Drakelands House; Foulksrath Castle; Gowran Castle; Grace's Old Castle; Jenkinstown Castle; Kilkenny Castle, Kilkenny City; Mount Juliet House, near Thomastown; Rothe House, Kilkenny ...
Also known as "Castle House" or "Lisgar House," Bailieborough Castle, was by 1629 an enclosed demesne that was attacked by Irish rebel forces under Colonel Hugh O'Reilly in 1641. [22] Around 1895 in Ireland, the estate was sold under the Ashbourne Act to a Sir Stanley Herbert Cochrane Bt., only to be destroyed by fire in 1918.
Tower houses are often called castles, and despite their characteristic compact footprint size, they are formidable habitations and there is no clear distinction between a castle and a tower house. In Scotland a classification system has been widely accepted based on ground plan, such as the L-plan castle style, one example being the original ...
Linlithgow Palace, the first building to bear that title in Scotland, extensively rebuilt along Renaissance principles from the fifteenth century.. The origins of private estate houses in Scotland are in the extensive building and rebuilding of royal palaces that probably began under James III (r. 1460–88), accelerated under James IV (r. 1488–1513), and reached its peak under James V (r ...
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Carribber Castle is the remains of a 16th-century manor house, and is unlikely to have been fortified due to its thin walls (less than 1 metre (3 ft 3 in) thick). Relatively little remains above ground, though the outlines of a courtyard and surrounding buildings can be traced, overlooking the steep Carribber Glen. [11] Couston Castle Tower house