Gatherley Castle
Gatherley Castle was a mansion on the Great North Road in the English administrative unit North Yorkshire .
history
The exact construction period of the house is just as little known as its architect. The type of its sliding windows and its roofing , however, indicates a construction period between 1830 and 1840.
Henry de Burgh-Lawson (1817-1892) owned it in the 1870s. Mr. Coatsworth of Darlington lived there from 1892. In 1900 Miss Barningham (1860–1915), daughter of a steel tycoon from Darlington, William Barningham, bought it . The property is mentioned in a directory from 1889. After Miss Barningham's death, the house was vacant and the interior was sold in 1928.
During World War II , Gatherley Castle was commandeered by the British Army and temporarily served as a prisoner of war camp for Germans and Italians. A searchlight battery was also housed there, but not during the time of the camp.
Edgar Lawson bought the property and demolished the mansion in 1963.
Today there is a residential building 100 meters west of the former manor house.
Lodges
The property had two gates, at which the houses North Lodge and South Lodge respectively stood in a light forest directly on the Great North Road . The forest was cleared in 1963 for the expansion of the road to the four-lane A1 , the houses initially remained directly on the A1 and were used as residential buildings. In 2016, they were demolished along with other buildings when this section of the A1 was expanded into a motorway.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Middleton Tyas: Geographical and Historical Information from the year 1890 . GENUKI. Retrieved April 8, 2016.
- ^ A1 Dishforth to Barton Improvement Environmental Statement, pp. 126/127. Retrieved July 25, 2016.
Coordinates: 54 ° 24 ′ 38.5 " N , 1 ° 39 ′ 30.6" W.