England · Ruin
Whorlton Castle
Whorlton Castle is a medieval motte-and-bailey site in North Yorkshire whose main surviving fabric is the roofless, three-storey 14th‑century gatehouse. The rest of the former bailey and the Norman cellars survive as earthworks and buried remains; the site is privately owned but visitable. The gatehouse is a Grade I listed ruin and was substantially rebuilt in the mid‑14th century by the Darcy family.
Its prime
1350
Today
Ruin
As it stood in 1350
The shape it held in its prime.
A mid-14th-century rectangular, three-storey gatehouse built of sandstone ashlar (about 17.7 by 10 m) with walls up to c.8.5 m high; each long face pierced by a large segmental-arched entrance flanked by narrow cross-windows and portcullis grooves. Above the eastern arch is a row of three carved shields and a single impaled shield. The gatehouse originally had floors and a roof with a vaulted central passage, mural chambers, and a projecting spiral stair tower to the northwest, standing at the edge of a broad dry ditch and bailey.
Step inside
10 places to explore in 1350.
The record describes 10 distinct spots at Whorlton Castle — including 5 interiors: central vaulted passage through the gatehouse, ground-floor guardrooms and mural chambers, top‑floor great hall and more. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more rooms of the immersive experience.
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See Whorlton Castle with the fires lit.
The artist rebuilds it as it stood in 1350 — a photoreal walk that belongs to you alone. Pay with coins, no subscription needed.
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