Château de Wressle

Le château de Wressle est un palais-forteresse en ruine situé dans le Yorkshire de l'Est en Angleterre, construit pour Thomas Percy dans les années 1390. Il s'agit d'une propriété privée inaccessible au public. Le château de Wressle était initialement composé de quatre bâtiments construits autour d'une cour centrale. il y avait une tour à chaque coin et l'accès à l'ensemble se faisait par une guérite située dans le mur est, face au village. Après que Thomas Percy a été exécuté pour s'être rebellé contre Henri IV, le château de Wressle passe sous contrôle royal. À l'exception de périodes occasionnelles quand il est accordé à d'autres personnes, le château reste la plupart du temps sous contrôle royal jusqu'en 1471 quand il est remis à la famille Percy. Henry Percy, 5e comte de Northumberland, rénove le château et les jardins, les élevant ainsi à la norme des propriétés royales. Le château était intégré dans un paysage ornemental, avec deux jardins aménagés en même temps que le château était bâti et un troisième créé plus tard. Wressle a été conçu comme résidence de haut niveau plutôt que simple forteresse et n'a jamais été assiégé. Il a cependant été tenu par le Parlement au cours de la guerre civile anglaise et démoli en 1646-1650. Près de 150 ans plus tard, il a également été endommagé par le feu et tout ce qui reste au-dessus du sol du bâtiment est l'aile sud.

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Wressle Castle

Wressle Castle is a ruined palace-fortress in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, Ordnance Survey grid reference SE 708316. Built for Thomas Percy in the 1390s. It is privately owned and it is usually open to the public for a few days each year. Wressle Castle originally consisted of four ranges built around a central courtyard; there was a tower at each corner, and the structure was entered through a gatehouse in the east wall, facing the village. After Thomas Percy was executed for rebelling against Henry IV, Wressle Castle was confiscated by the Crown. With occasional periods when it was granted to other people, the castle was mostly under royal control until 1471 when it was returned to the Percy family. Henry Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland, refurbished the castle and gardens, bringing them to the standard of royal properties. The castle was embedded within an ornamental landscape, with two gardens laid out at the same time as the castle was founded and a third created later. Wressle was intended as a high-status residence rather than a fortress and was never besieged. However, it was held by Parliament during the English Civil War and partly demolished in 1646–50, leaving the south range still standing. Nearly 150 years later, it was further damaged by a fire that struck the house. In the 21st century, Historic England, Natural England and the Country Houses Foundation funded repairs to the castle ruins.

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Wressle

Wressle (with spelling variations of Wressell, and Wressel, in Leland's Itinerary as Wreshil, in the Domesday Book as Weresa) is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, lying on the eastern bank of the River Derwent approximately 3 miles (5 km) north-west of Howden. Wressle village has a late 18th-century church, St John, and on the western fringe of the village is the Grade I listed structure and scheduled monument, the ruins of Wressle Castle. Wressle railway station is located within the village. The parish includes the hamlets of Brind, Newsholme and Loftshome. Wressle lies within the Parliamentary constituency of Goole and Pocklington.

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Wressle railway station

Wressle railway station is a railway station on the Selby Line that serves the village of Wressle in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated 25 miles (40 km) west of Hull Paragon.

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Holmes House, South Duffield

Holmes House is a historic building in South Duffield, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. There was a building on the site in the medieval period, part of the moat of which survives. The current building was constructed in the early 17th century as a large farmhouse, in the Artisan Mannerist style. It was purchased by Michael Barstow in 1663, and remained in the family until 1926. There were various later alterations and additions, including a substantial late-20th century range at the rear. The building was Grade II* listed in 1966. The house is built of brick, with a floor band, and a pantile roof with gable bands and a right curvilinear gable. It has two storeys and is five bays wide. The middle bay projects as a two-story gabled porch containing a round-arched doorway with engaged columns, imposts, and a moulded pediment. Above it is a two-light mullioned window with a pediment. The outer bays contain mullioned and transomed windows in round openings with cogged surrounds. The ground floor windows have triangular pediments in the outer bays and segmental pediments in the inner bays.

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Newsholme, East Riding of Yorkshire

Newsholme is a hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) north-west of the market town of Howden and lies on the north side of the A63 road. It forms part of the civil parish of Wressle. In 1823 Newsholme with Brind was in the parish of Wressle, the Wapentake of Harthill and the Liberty of Howdenshire. Population at the time was 177. The name Newsholme derives from the plural form of the Old English nīwehūs meaning 'new house'.

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