Fortified manor house

In the early part of the 14th Century, Yanwath was owned by John de Sutton. Towards the end of the Century it was aquired by the Threlkeld family, who rebuilt parts and added the bay window. In 1671 the property passed to the Lowthers and from that time onwards has been used as a farm. The house which forms three sides of a courtyard, is not open to the public. There are similar partly-fortified houses at Blencow and Catterlen, north of Penrith, and Kentmere near Kendal

The castle, which is actually a heavily fortified manor house sits near the Welsh border in western Shropshire. The valley where it is situated was one the major thoroughfares across the Welsh Marches were bands of Welsh sometimes crossed the border to prey on English farms and manors.

Markenfield Hall, a fortified manor house dating to 1280, surrounded by its moat

Warkworth Castle-Tattershall Castle. Tattershall Castle in Tattershall,Lincolnshire, England, has its origins in either a stone castle or a fortified manor house, built by Robert de Tattershall in 1231.This was largely rebuilt in brick,and greatly expanded,by Ralph, 3rd Lord Cromwell, Treasurer of England, betw.1430 and 1450.

So, with the main halls done it’s onto the other buildings and curtain walls. A timber gatehouse was requested along the line of Stokesay ca...