Kirby Knowle Castle
Kirby Knowle Castle is a historic stone country house in the village of Kirby Knowle, North Yorkshire. The building preserves a three-storey main block with a canted bay and a five-stage tower and contains named domestic rooms and service buildings recorded from the Elizabethan and Stuart periods.
Its prime
1655
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1655
What Kirby Knowle Castle looked like in its prime.
A stone country house of pale Yorkshire stone with Welsh slate roofs: a three-storey main block of four bays, a two-storey canted bay with a conical roof and openwork parapet, and a five-stage tower set in the angle. Windows are predominantly mullioned and transomed with hood moulds; the main roofline carries a panelled parapet with semicircular battlements and obelisk corner finials. The house sits in a village-rural setting and appears complete and occupied.
Its story
The story of Kirby Knowle Castle.
Kirby Knowle Castle is a stone country house in North Yorkshire under Welsh slate roofs, its main block of three storeys and four bays with mullioned and transomed windows under hood moulds, a panelled parapet with semicircular battlements and obelisk corner finials, and a five-stage tower set in the angle of its ranges.
The house was the Constable family's. A survey praised the mansion John Constable founded as "passing beautiful of itself and fair of prospect", with hall, great chamber, gallery and chapel among its lodgings. His wife Katherine, a daughter of Henry Neville, 5th Earl of Westmorland, died in 1590, her will recording Elizabethan luxuries including a porcelain cup that guarded against poisoning. The Constables left in 1644, and by 1652 the "New Building" was out of repair.
Step inside
12 places to explore in 1655.
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Clans who held Kirby Knowle Castle.
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Constable
Held by the Constable family through the Elizabethan and Stuart periods; unoccupied by them after 1644.
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