Callaly Castle
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Callaly Castle is a country house north of the village of Callaly , about 14.5 km west of Alnwick in the English county of Northumberland . English Heritage has listed the building as a Grade I Historic Building.
Earlier buildings
In the Iron Age, there was a hill fort on the site of today's manor house . A moth emerged there in the 12th century . A peel tower was built in the 14th or 15th century.
Country house
In 1619 John Clavering had today's country house built and the Peel Tower integrated as the west wing. The architect Robert Trollope carried out the first major additions to this new house in 1676 . In 1707 the facades were fundamentally revised so that all previous parts of the building were covered.
The country house was the home of the Clavering family for many years . Part of the house was a Roman Catholic chapel that was blessed when the Claverings sold the property in 1877.
In the 18th and 19th centuries, the Claverings had a number of changes made and in the 1890s the new owner, Alexander Browne , had the country house completely restored.
In 1987 the house was divided into individual apartments by the architect Kit Martin .
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- Callaly Castles - Old and New . NorthOfTheTyne.co.uk. Photos and story.
- Plantagenet Somerset Fry: The David & Charles Book of Castles , David & Charles, Newton Abbot 1980. ISBN 0-7153-7976-3
Coordinates: 55 ° 22 '58.8 " N , 1 ° 55' 15.6" W.