Historic Buildings in Yorkshire

Norton Conyers is an attractive late medieval manor thought to have been the inspiration for Charlotte Bronte's Thornfield Hall in the novel Jane Eyre. The manor was owned by the Graham family from 1624 (with the exception of a brief period in the late 19th century).
Wath, Ripon, Yorkshire, England, HG4 5EQ

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Heritage Highlight: The inspiration for Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre

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Nunnington Hall is a lovely Elizabethan manor house of mellow stone, remodelled in 1600 and again in 1885. The house stands in a lovely location beside the River Rye. The interiors feature changing exhibitions of art and photography, as well as a collection of miniature rooms furnished with minuscule furniture and musical instruments. Near the Hall is a walled organic garden, restored to its 17th-century state.
Nunnington, York, Yorkshire, England, YO62 5UY

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Red Tower forms part of York's medieval city walls. The tower - which looks more like a small brick-built cottage that a watchtower - was built in 1490 to defend the King's Fishpool area of the wall.
Foss Islands Road, York, Yorkshire, England, YO1 9UJ

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Heritage Highlight: Part of York's famous medieval city walls.

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The Ribblehead Viaduct (also known as the Batty Moss Viaduct) is a stunning example of Victorian engineering, begun in 1870 to carry the Settle to Carlisle railway line across Batty Moss, near Ingleton. Over 200 men, women, and children died during its construction.
B6255, Ingleton, Yorkshire, England

Attraction Type: Historic Property - Railway Viaduct
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Heritage Highlight: A stunning example of Victorian engineering

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Skidby Windmill is the last working windmill in Yorkshire. It was built in 1821 and is still in operation. At one time the landscape of Yorkshire was dotted with mills; over 200 existed at one point, but gradually they fell out of use in favour of mechanised means of grinding grain. Now only the mill at Skidby remains, a reminder of a way of life going back centuries.
Skidby, Yorkshire, England, HU16 5TF

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Heritage Highlight: The last working windmill in Yorkshire

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St Leonard's Hospital is a 12th-century hospital based on an earlier chapel founded by King Athelstan. It was refounded by King Stephen and dedicated to St Leonard. It became the largest hospital in northern England, with 206 beds, before it was suppressed by Henry VIII in 1540.
Museum Gardens, Museum Street, York, Yorkshire, England, YO1 7DT

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Heritage Highlight: Once the largest medieval hospital in northern England

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In 1457 Henry VI granted York Minster a license to establish a college of chantry priests here, in the lee of the Minster church. The foundation was delayed by the turmoil of the Wars of the Roses, but in 1461 Edward IV confirmed the grant, and a college of 23 fellows was established, though construction of the college building did not actually start until 1465.
4-5 College Street, York, Yorkshire, England, YO1 7JF

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Steeton Hall Gatehouse is a very well-preserved Grade I listed 14th-century gateway built for the manor of Steeton Hall. The gateway was built around 1360 and is two storeys high, with a central arched passage and a smaller side passage. It is ornately crenellated and decorated with heraldic shields, coats of arms, and grotesque gargoyles. The gateway is joined to solid curtain walls.
Steeton Way, South Milford, Yorkshire, England, LS25 5PD

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Tewit Well was the first chalybeate well discovered in Harrogate in 1571. It stands in The Stray, a 200-acre park, and is covered by a neoclassical domed pavilion that once protected the Old Sulphur Well (now the Royal Pump Room).
Tewit Well Road, The Stray, Harrogate, Yorkshire, England

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Heritage Highlight: The first well discovered in Harrogate

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The Norman House is one of York's hidden treasures, standing in a secluded courtyard accessed through an archway from Stonegate. The house was built of freestone about 1180, and it is the oldest house in York of which any substantial remains still stand in place. It is also the oldest example of domestic stonework still in its original location.
off Stonegate, York, Yorkshire, England

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Heritage Highlight: Remnants of the oldest surviving house in York

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