Historic Buildings in Yorkshire

Jacob's Well is a 15th-century timber-framed house now acting as the church room for Holy Trinity Micklegate Church. It was built around 1474 by an alderman of York as a residence for a chantry priest. It later served as an inn and a residence. Look for the beautifully-carved Jacobean entrance on Trinity Lane.
Trinity Lane, York, Yorkshire, England, YO1 6LL

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Heritage Highlight: Wonderful Jacobean carved entrance

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King's Manor began as the 11th-century residence of the abbot of St Mary's Abbey in York. After the abbey was suppressed by Henry VIII it became the headquarters of the Council of the North and welcomed at least three reigning monarchs including Henry VIII, James I, and Charles I.
Exhibition Square, York, Yorkshire, England, YO1 7EP

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Heritage Highlight: Former headuarters of the Council of the North

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Lady Peckett's Yard is a passage linking Pavement and Fossgate, formed from two medieval alleys at right angles. It is named for Alice Peckett, the wife of a Lord Mayor of York in 1701. The entrance on Pavement runs beside the timber-framed birthplace of Sir Thomas Herbert (1606).
Pavement, York, Yorkshire, England, YO1 9UP

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Heritage Highlight: 16th-century building at No. 11

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A brick-built 18th-century merchant's house on High Street in Hull. The house is a living reminder of Hull's prosperity as a centre of shipping and commerce during the Georgian period. The building is currently used as offices, so only the grand plasterwork front hall and staircase can be viewed.
160 High Street, Hull, Yorkshire, England, HU1 1NL

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The Mansion House is an elegant Georgian building that has been the official residence of the Lord Mayor of York since the early 18th century. It was the first house in England to be built expressly for a Lord Mayor and was erected at least two decades before the Mansion House in London.
St Helens Square, York, Yorkshire, England, YO1 9QL

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Heritage Highlight: The first purpose built Lord Mayor's House in England

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A small medieval building on The Shambles in York is the location of St Margaret Clitherow's Shrine. Clitherow was executed at the height of anti-Catholicism in Elizabethan England for harbouring a priest and refusing to abjure her faith.
35-36, The Shambles, York, Yorkshire, England

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A lovely 14th-century gatehouse on the banks of the River Ure is all that remains of the fortified manor house of Tanfield Castle. The exact location of the manor is not known, but generations of its owners lie buried in the neighbouring parish church, where their monuments can be seen.
West Tanfield, Yorkshire, England, HG4 5JQ

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Heritage Highlight: Medieval oriel window

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The Merchant Adventurers' Hall is sadly overlooked by many visitors to York. Let's rectify that! The Hall is a superb medieval building, one of the best-preserved examples of a medieval guildhall in England. The Hall was begun in 1357 and remains largely unaltered. The Hall undercroft served as a local hospital until 1900.
Fossgate, York, Yorkshire, England, YO1 9XD

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The Merchant Taylors' Hall was begun in 1415 and completed in the 15th century for the Company of Merchant Taylors. Beside the Hall is a 1730 almshouse. The Hall boasts a superb medieval timber roof and the earliest known work by stained glass artist Henry Gyles, dated 1662.
Aldwark, York, Yorkshire, England, YO1 7BX

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Heritage Highlight: Outstanding 15th-century timber roof.

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Moulton Hall is an attractive Grade I listed country house, dating to about 1650. The house features a lovely carved wooden staircase.
Moulton, Richmond, Yorkshire, England, DL10 6QH

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