Northborough Manor House, also known as Northborough Hall or Northborough Castle Farmhouse, is a medieval fortified
manor house, and Grade I
listed building in the village of
Northborough in
Cambridgeshire,
England.
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History
Northborough Castle was built between 1333 and 1336 by Roger Northburgh, the Bishop of Lichfield; of the original manor, only the gatehouse and the hall still survive.drawbridge
A drawbridge or draw-bridge is a type of moveable bridge typically at the entrance to a castle or tower surrounded by a moat. In some forms of English, including American English, the word ''drawbridge'' commonly refers to all types of moveable ...
or portcullis
A portcullis (from Old French ''porte coleice'', "sliding gate") is a heavy vertically-closing gate typically found in medieval fortifications, consisting of a latticed grille made of wood, metal, or a combination of the two, which slides down gr ...
, provided considerable protection to the manor behind it. The hall typified the 14th century fashion for improved lighting, with bay windows placed regularly along the line of the hall, and was decorated with wall paintings.[Emery (2007), pp.50-1, 84.] Some 16th and 17th-century extensions to the castle were made.[Northborough Castle]
, ''the Gatehouse webpage'', accessed 21 April 2011.
The manor was sold to James Claypole in 1565, and sold to Lord Fitzwilliam in 1681. It was reputedly visited by Oliver Cromwell.
See also
* Castles in Great Britain and Ireland
* List of castles in England
References
Bibliography
*Astley, H. J. D. (1899) "Northborough church and manor house," in ''The Journal of the British Archaeological Association'' Vol. 5 pp. 129–40.
*Emery, Anthony. (2007)
Discovering Medieval Houses.
' Risborough, UK: Shire Publishing. .
*Emery, Anthony. (2006)
Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300–1500: Southern England.
' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. {{ISBN, 978-0-521-58132-5.
External links
Official website
Country houses in Cambridgeshire