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The manor on which the castle was situated was termed the caput of the barony, thus every true ancient defensive castle was also the manor house of its own manor. The suffix "-Castle" was also used to name certain manor houses, generally built as mock castles, but often as houses rebuilt on the site of a former true castle:
The Great Hall in Barley Hall, York, restored to replicate its appearance in around 1483 The great hall of The Abbey, Sutton Courtenay in 1906, filled with hunting trophies Great Hall at Stokesay Castle. A great hall is the main room of a royal palace, castle or a large manor house or hall house in the Middle Ages.
Although castle has not become a generic term for a manor house (like château in French and Schloss in German), many manor houses contain castle in their name while having few if any of the architectural characteristics, usually as their owners liked to maintain a link to the past and felt the term castle was a masculine expression of their ...
Wentworth Woodhouse is a large rural estate, extending to 15,000 acres including the country house. The "estate" formed an economic system where the profits from its produce and rents (of housing or agricultural land) sustained the main household, formerly known as the manor house. Thus, "the estate" may refer to all other cottages and villages ...
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.
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.
Completing the trio of new "royal" buildings in CastleVille is the Royal Manor, a building that looks almost identical to the Royal Chateau (also pictured here for your reference), which can be ...
Tattershall Castle, Lincolnshire, has hall and large solar block later converted into a tower. [8] Longthorpe Tower, Peterborough, an extension to an existing fortified manor house. Beverston Castle near Tetbury, dating from the 13th century, has a surviving but ruined solar in the south tower of the west range, with a vaulted undercroft below.