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Ripley Castle today

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Ripley Castle

Ripley Castle is a Grade I listed country house in Ripley, North Yorkshire, long-held by the Ingilby family. The building combines a medieval tower and a largely late-18th-century rebuilt house with an adjacent 15th-century gatehouse, orangery, service ranges and garden follies; the estate remains privately owned and its grounds are open to visitors.

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Its prime

1786

Today

Still standing

As it stood in 1786

The shape it held in its prime.

A coursed, pink–grey gritstone country house of two main storeys with a three-storey wing and a square 16th-century tower at the southwest corner; embattled parapets and crenellated rooflines punctuated by tall grouped stone chimneys; sash windows in rectangular and round-headed openings; ashlar dressings and diagonal buttresses on the tower; gravel forecourt sweeping to a neat lawn, with separate stone outbuildings, orangery and a freestanding embattled stone gatehouse 80 metres to the south.

Step inside

9 places to explore in 1786.

The record describes 9 distinct spots at Ripley Castle — including 2 interiors: gatehouse passage under the arch, library (interior room in the main block). Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more rooms of the immersive experience.

Forecourt approach and main façades15th‑century gatehouse exteriorGatehouse passage under the archSouthwest tower and stair turretOrangery façade and walled gardenStables and service courtyardBrewhouse, laundry block and dairy (north of the house)Garden temple (folly)Library (interior room in the main block)

Create History

See Ripley Castle with the fires lit.

The artist rebuilds it as it stood in 1786 — a photoreal walk that belongs to you alone. Pay with coins, no subscription needed.

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