Castles, Palaces & Stately Homes
Ardvreck Castle is a ruined castle dating from the 16th century on the banks of Loch Assynt, Scotland.
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The castle, which was built in the 15th century by John, earl of Mar, stands within the ramparts of an Iron Age hill fort.
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The building of Ballindalloch Castle began in 1546 with the construction of the first tower. The castle is said to be haunted.
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Castle Acre village in Norfolk village is best known today for the twin ruins of Castle Acre Castle and the nearby Castle Acre Priory.
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Clun Castle is a ruined castle originally established by the Norman lord Robert de Say after the Norman invasion.
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Hastings Castle was built on the orders of William of Normandy, in 1066.
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After landing in England in 1066 William of Normandy ordered 3 fortifications to be built, at Pevensey, Hastings and Dover.
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A community of Augustinian canons built Anglesey Priory, some time during the reign of Henry I in the 12th century.
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Belton House is surrounded by formal gardens and a series of avenues leading to follies within a larger wooded park.
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Calke Abbey, was never an abbey, but is a Baroque mansion built between 1701 and 1704.
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The Sizergh estate dates from 1336, when Edward III allowed Sir Walter Strickland to enclose the land around Sizergh as his exclusive park.
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Petworth House is a late 17th-century mansion, rebuilt in 1688 by Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, and altered in the 1870s.
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Carlisle Castle, which is over 900 years old, is situated near the ruins of Hadrian's Wall.
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Cromwell's Castle, on the island of Tresco, is a coastal Gun Tower built by Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, in 1651.
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Framlington Castle, was unusual in that it had no central keep, but a curtain wall with 13 towers to defend the centre of the castle.
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13th century Hadleigh Castle overlooks the Thames estuary from a ridge, south of the town of Hadleigh.
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Lindisfarne Castle is a 16th-century castle on Holy Island much altered by Sir Edwin Lutyens in 1901.
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Middleham Castle was built by Robert Fitzrandolph, 3rd Lord of Middleham and Spennithorne, around 1190.
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Norham castle was founded when Ranulf Flambard, Bishop of Durham gave orders for its construction in 1121.
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Penrith Castle, in Cumbria, was built between 1399 and 1470 as a defence against Scottish raids.
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