Middleham Castle
MIDDLEHAM CASTLE, CASTLE HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1318543
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jan-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Middleham Castle
- Statutory Address:
- MIDDLEHAM CASTLE, CASTLE HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1318543
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jan-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Middleham Castle
- Statutory Address 1:
- MIDDLEHAM CASTLE, CASTLE HILL
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- MIDDLEHAM CASTLE, CASTLE HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Middleham
- National Grid Reference:
- SE1265687615
Details
SE 18 NW
9/69
6.1.70
MIDDLEHAM
CASTLE HILL
(south side)
Middleham Castle
GV
I
Ruined castle. C12, C13, C14 and C15. Ashlar and rubble. Large
rectangular keep of 1170s standing to its full height, divided to form Hall
and Great Chamber on the first floor, formerly with an external staircase
approach. Late C13 chapel annexe. Curtain wall of C12 and C13, with
irregularly-shaped angle towers, including a round tower on south-west known
as the Prince's Tower. C14 gatehouse to north-east with diagonal turrets,
and machicolations above the segmental-arched opening, and inside a single-
chamfered rib-vault. On 3 sides of curtain wall, living and service ranges
were added in the C14 and C15. From 1270 the castle belonged to the Nevill
family of Raby. Anne Nevill married Richard, Duke of Gloucester, later
Richard II, in 1470, and in 1473 their only child, Edward, was born in
Middleham Castle, according to tradition in the Prince's Tower. Later,
Nevill property reverted to the Crown. VCH, i, pp 251-5. Scheduled as an
Ancient Monument.
Listing NGR: SE1265687615
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 321659
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of York, (1907), 251-5
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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