Montegriffo wrote: Tue Aug 14, 2018 2:18 pm Right, I've put off my homework for long enough...
Stokesay castle, technically a fortified manor house.
This place is older than the Tudor gatehouse suggests. Granted its license to crenellate by King Edward I himself in the late 13th century the manor house was fortified with a curtain wall (destroyed by parliaments forces after the castle surrended in the civil war) and a heart shaped tower was built.
Heavily restored in the 17th century when the beautiful timber framed gatehouse and the solar were added.
Still in remarkable condition you could move into it tomorrow if it were not for the fact several families of swallows and 4 or 5 species of bat now see it as home.
The great hall with its large single span roof is complete
and the 17th century wooden panelling and carved oak fireplace still remains in the families main room
In my top three castles visited for sure.
This place is my style.
