Historic Houses in Yorkshire

Allerton Castle is a beautifully-restored Victorian Gothic stately home on the site of an earlier house owned by the 'Grand Old Duke of York'. This fairytale Gothic castle has sumptuous interiors filled with fine art, furniture and unusual musical instruments. In the grounds is a medieval church filled with memorials to centuries of previous Castle owners.
Allerton Mauleverer, Yorkshire, England, HG5 0SE

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Beningbrough Hall is a lovely early 18th century mansion built in red brick by John Bourchier. Bourchier was greatly influenced by the Italian architecture he encountered on a Grand Tour, and his marriage a wealthy heiress, Mary Bellwood, gave him the wherewithal to rebuild his family home at Beningbrough in elegant style.
Beningbrough, York, Yorkshire, England, YO30 1DD

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Bramham Park is a stately home built in 1698 by Robert Benson, the 1st Lord Bingley. It was Lord Bingley who was responsible for laying out the extensive landscape gardens around the house which make a visit to Bramham such a delight.
Bramham, Yorkshire, England, LS23 6ND

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Heritage Highlight: A ground-breaking late 17th-century garden, precursor of the English landscape garden

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Brockfield Hall is a late Georgian house, built in 1804 by Peter Atkinson for Benjamin Agar. Atkinson worked in the office of noted York architect John Carr ('Carr of York'). The most striking feature of Brockfield is an oval entry hall, which features a cantilevered staircase.
Warthill, York, Yorkshire, England, YO19 5XJ

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One of the best examples of an unaltered Victorian country house in England, Brodsworth Hall was built in the 1860s by Italian Chevalier Casentini for Charles Thellusson. Casentini's design was actually executed by the English architect Philip Wilkinson, and Casentini himself never saw the house. It is possible that Thellusson's choice of an Italianate design was influenced by Queen Victoria's equally Italianate Osborne House, on the Isle of Wight.
Brodsworth, Yorkshire, England, DN5 7XJ

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A red-brick and stone jewel built from 1601 by Robert Smythson (see Longleat and Hardwick). Carved wood and plaster screen graces the large great hall, and the house is full of Impressionist and modern paintings.
Burton Agnes, Driffield, Yorkshire, England, YO25 4NB

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Heritage Highlight: Magnificent Long Gallery with Elizabethan plasterwork

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This delightful house is located in beautiful parkland far from any village; it seems lost in a world of its own. The Constable family have owned property in the Holderness area of East Yorkshire since the 12th century, and are descended from Ulbert the Constable, a knight serving under the powerful Norman Count of Aumale.
Burton Constable, Skirlaugh, Yorkshire, England, HU11 4LN

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Heritage Highlight: Elizabethan Great Hall and Long Gallery

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Here is John Vanbrugh's extraordinary baroque vision realized in all its extravagance for the 3rd Earl of Carlisle. One of the very first landscape gardens was built here, and there are paintings by Gainsborough and Rubens. The huge central dome has been restored after a 20th century fire.
Castle Howard, York, Yorkshire, England, YO60 7DA

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Heritage Highlight: The extraordinary dome is an architectural wonder

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East Riddlesden Hall is a picturesque 17th-century mansion built on the foundations of an earlier medieval hall house. The main part of the medieval house was rebuilt around 1630, with further remodelling in 1648 and again in 1692 when a new range, now ruined, was added to the earlier structure. It is the 1648 rebuilding which forms the larger part of the house we can see today.
Bradford Road, Keighley, Yorkshire, England, BD20 5EL

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On the edge of York's famous racecourse is a beautiful Arts and Crafts style home built in 1926 by Kathleen Terry and her husband Noel Goddard Terry, head of the Terry chocolate company. Noel Terry wanted a home near the Terry's Chocolate works, but more than that he wanted a place to enjoy family life with Kathleen and their four children Peter, Kenneth, Betty and Richard.
27 Tadcaster Road, York, Yorkshire, England, YO24 1GG

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Heritage Highlight: Superb Arts and Crafts architecture

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