List of English Heritage properties

English Heritage
Status	Non-departmental public body
Territory	England
Leadership	Simon Thurley
Founded	1983
Website	english-heritage.org.uk

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English Heritage (officially the Historic Building and Monuments Commission for England).^[1] is an executive non-departmental public body of the British Government sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). By caring for the built environment, English Heritage complements the work of Natural England which aims to protect the natural environment. It has a broad remit of managing the historic built environment of England and advises the relevant Secretary of State on policy and in individual cases such as registering listed buildings and scheduled ancient monuments.

It was set up under the terms of the National Heritage Act 1983. Its functions for maintaining ancient monuments had previously been undertaken by part of the Department of the Environment which was the successor to the Ministry of Works. English Heritage's best known role is as the steward of over 400 significant historical and archaeological sites, from Stonehenge to the world's earliest iron bridge. It has direct ownership over some historic sites and also liaises with private owners of sites that are managed under guardianship arrangements. It has major responsibilities in conservation, giving advice, registering and protecting the historic environment. It also maintains a public archive, the National Monuments Record (NMR).

This page provides a list of English Heritage Properties in England, and is a link page for any stately home, historic house, castle, abbey, museum or other property in the care of English Heritage.

Contents

Bedfordshire · Berkshire · Bristol and Bath · Buckinghamshire · Cambridgeshire · Cheshire · Co. Durham · Cornwall · Cumbria · Derbyshire · Devon · Dorset · Durham · East Riding of Yorkshire · East Sussex · Essex · Gloucestershire · Hampshire · Herefordshire · Hertfordshire · Isle of Wight · Isles of Scilly · Kent · Lancashire · Leicestershire · Lincolnshire · London · Norfolk · Northamptonshire · Northumberland · North Yorkshire · Nottinghamshire · Oxfordshire · Redcar and Cleveland · Rutland · Shropshire · Somerset · South Yorkshire · Staffordshire · Suffolk · Surrey · Tyne and Wear · Warwickshire · West Midlands · West Sussex · West Yorkshire · Wiltshire · Worcestershire
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[edit] Bedfordshire

Name	Type	Date	Condition	Notes
Bushmead Priory	Priory	1185-95	Part complete	The Priory Church of Saint Mary, Bushmead, commonly called Bushmead Priory, was a monastic foundation for Augustinian Canons, located at Bushmead in the County of Bedfordshire in England.
De Grey Mausoleum	Mausoleum	1614	Complete	The de Grey Mausoleum in Flitton, Bedfordshire, England, is one of the largest sepulchral chapels in the country.
Houghton House	Manor House	1615	Ruins	Houghton House is a ruined house located near Houghton Conquest in Bedfordshire, on the ridge just north of Ampthill, and about 8 miles south of Bedford. The house was built for the writer, translator, and literary patron Mary Sidney Herbert, Dowager Countess of Pembroke.
Wrest Park House and Gardens	Manor House	1834-39	Complete	Wrest Park is a country estate located near Silsoe, Bedfordshire, England. It comprises Wrest Park, a Grade I listed country house, and Wrest Park Gardens, also Grade I listed, formal gardens surrounding the mansion.

[edit] Berkshire

Name	Type	Date	Condition	Image	Notes
Donnington Castle	Castle	1386	Ruins		Donnington Castle is a ruined medieval castle, situated in the small village of Donnington, just north of the town of Newbury. It was destroyed in the English Civil War in 1646

[edit] Bristol & Bath

Name	Type	Date	Condition	Notes
Sir Bevil Grenville's Monument	Monument	1720	Complete	Sir Bevil Grenville's Monument is a monument erected on Lansdowne Hill, Bath, to commemorate the heroism of Sir Bevil Grenville and his Cornish pikemen at the Battle of Lansdowne in 1643
Stanton Drew Circles and Cove	Henge	Neolithic	Fragments	Located just outside the village of Stanton Drew, Somerset. The largest stone circle is the Great Circle, the second largest stone circle in Britain (after Avebury). The Great Circle probably consisted of 30 stones, of which 27 survive today, and was surrounded by the ditch of a henge. The North East Circle is 30 m in diameter and probably consisted of 10 or more stones, of which 9 are individually recognisable. The South West Circle is 40 m in diameter, and probably had more stones than the North East Circle, as it is larger in size.
Stoney Littleton Long Barrow	Tumulus	Neolithic	Mostly complete	A Neolithic chambered tomb with multiple burial chambers, located near the village of Wellow, Somerset. It is an example of the Severn-Cotswold tomb. The barrow is about 30m in ilength and 15m wide at the south-east end, it stands nearly 3m high. Internally it consists of a 12.8m long gallery with three pairs of side chambers and an end chamber.
Temple Church	Church	1390	Ruins	A ruined church building in central Bristol, which was founded in the mid 12th century by Robert of Gloucester and the Knights Templar. It served as the site for the famous exorcism of George Lukins conducted by Methodist and Anglican clergymen. It was bombed in World War II and largely destroyed.

[edit] Cambridgeshire

Name	Type	Date	Condition	Notes
Denny Abbey and Farmland Museum	Abbey or Priory	1159	Parts survive	A former abbey near Waterbeach, north of Cambridge. The site, on an ancient road between Cambridge and Ely, was settled by farmers as early as the Roman period. A group of Benedictine monks, governed from Ely, moved here from their waterlogged monastery at Elmeney (a vanished settlement about a mile to the northeast) in the 1150s, at the suggestion of Duke Conan IV of Brittany. They built a church, Denny Priory, which opened in 1159. The crossing and transepts are the only parts of the original Priory that remain today. In 1169 the monks returned to Ely and the site was handed to the Knights Templar.
Duxford Chapel	Chapel	1337	Complete	A chapel that was once part of the Hospital of St. John at Duxford, in Cambridgeshire, England, the hospital since demolished. Built using flint rubble for the walls and limestone for the doorways and windows.
Flag Fen excavations	Settlement	Bronze Age	Reconstruction	A Bronze Age site, probably religious. It comprises over 1,000,000 timbers arranged in five very long rows (around 1 km) connecting Whittlesey Island with Peterborough across the wet fenland. Part way across the structure, a small island was formed which is where it is presumed that the religious ceremonies occurred. The site was first discovered in 1982 when a team led by Francis Pryor carried out a survey of dykes in the area funded by English Heritage.
Isleham Priory Church	Church	1090	Complete	A Norman church, Located in Isleham, and part of the former St Margaret's Benedictine Alien Priory. Later converted into a barn, but it remains in an unaltered state.
Longthorpe Tower	Castle	1310	Only tower remains	A fourteenth century, three-storey tower, originally part of a fortified manor house. Situated in the village of Longthorpe, now a residential area of Peterborough.

[edit] Cheshire

Name	Type	Date	Condition	Notes
Beeston Castle	Castle	1220	Ruins	A former Royal castle in Beeston, perched on a rocky sandstone crag 110m above the Cheshire Plain. Built by Ranulf de Blondeville, 6th Earl of Chester, on his return from the Crusades. In 1237, Henry III took over the ownership of Beeston, and it was kept in good repair until the 16th century. The castle was slighted in 1646. During the 18th century the site was used as a quarry.
Chester Castle: Agricola Tower and Castle Walls	Castle	1070	Partly complete	The castle stands on an eminence overlooking the River Dee. In the castle complex are the remaining parts of the medieval castle together with the neoclassical buildings designed by Thomas Harrison which were built between 1788 and 1813. Parts of the neoclassical buildings are used today as Crown Courts and as a military museum. The museum and the medieval remains are a tourist attraction.
Chester Roman Amphitheatre	Amphitheatre	1st Century	Ruins	Ruins of a large Roman stone amphitheatre, similar to those found in Continental Europe. Today, only the northern half of the structure is exposed; the southern half is covered by buildings. The amphitheatre is the largest so far uncovered in Britain, and dates from the 1st century, when the Roman fort of Deva Victrix was founded. Rediscovered in 1929, when one of the pit walls was discovered during construction work.
Sandbach Crosses	Monument	9th Century	Complete	Two Anglo-Saxon stone crosses now erected in the market place in the town of Sandbach. They are unusually large and elaborate examples of the type consisting of two upright columns set in sockets on a base of three stepped stones. They depict religious scenes, doll-like heads and beasts in panels, together with vine-scrolls, course interlace patterns and some dragons.

[edit] County Durham

Name	Type	Date	Condition	Notes
Auckland Castle Deer House	Castle or Mansion	1183	Complete	Also known as Auckland Palace or locally as the Bishop's Castle or Bishop's Palace, the castle has been the official residence of the Bishop of Durham since 1832. However, it has been owned by the diocese for more than 800 years, being established as a hunting lodge for the Prince Bishops of Durham. It is more like a Gothic country house than a true castle with a military function. The Castle's Scotland Wing presently serves as the administrative offices of the Durham Diocesan Board of Finance.
Barnard Castle	Castle	1095	Ruins	A ruined medieval castle originally built on the site of an earlier defended position from around 1095 to 1125 by Guy de Balliol. In the 15th century the castle passed by marriage to the Neville family. Over the next two centuries the Nevilles enlarged and improved the estate and created a substantial and impressive castle. However when Charles Neville, 6th Earl of Westmorland was attainted for his leading role in the Rising of the North, the Neville estates were sequestered. In 1626 the Crown sold the castle and also the Neville property at Raby Castle to Sir Henry Vane.
Bowes Castle	Castle	12th Century	Ruins	Built in the corner of an old Roman fort guarding the Stainforth Pass through the Pennines by Alan, Count of Brittany, in the north-west corner of the site.
Derwentcote Steel Furnace	Foundry	Complete	1720	Located near Rowlands Gill, near Newcastle. It is an example of an early cementation furnace which produced high grade steel.
Egglestone Abbey	Abbey	12th Century	Ruins	An abandoned Abbey on the eastern bank of the River Tees. Founded bywere the Premonstratensians who wore a white habit and became known as the White Canons. They chose the site for the abbey was chosen because of its isolation, close proximity to a river and the supply of local stone for its construction.
Finchale Priory	Priory	1196	Ruins	A Benedictine priory, sited by the River Wear. Includes the remains of an early 12th century stone chapel of St John the Baptist, the site of Godric of Finchale's burial, built some time around the end of Godric's life. The monastic complex was built in the latter half of the 13th century with alterations and additions continuing for the following three hundred years.

[edit] Cornwall

Name	Type	Date	Condition	Notes
Ballowall Barrow	Cairn	Neolithic	Remains	A prehistoric funerary cairn (chambered tomb) situated on the cliff top at Ballowall Common, near St Just. Also known as Carn Gluze Barrow. It was first excavated in 1878 by William Copeland Borlase when it was discovered under mining debris. The site today is a confused mix of original and reconstructions introduced by Borlase. The barrow is 22 m in diameter.
Carn Euny Ancient Village	Settlement and Fogou	Neolithic	Remains	An archaeological site near Sancreed, on the Penwith peninsula in Cornwall, with considerable evidence of both Iron Age and post-Iron Age settlement. Carn Euny is best known for the well-preserved state of the large fogou, an underground passageway, which is more than 20m long.
Chysauster Ancient Village	Settlement	Neolithic	Remains	A Romano-British village of courtyard houses, believed to have been constructed and occupied between 100 BC and 400 AD; it was primarily agricultural and unfortified and probably occupied by members of the Dumnonii tribe. The village included eight stone dwellings, arranged in pairs along a street, each with its own garden plot. The nearby hill fort of Castle An Dinas may have been a contemporary refuge for the occupants of the village in times of strife.
Dupath Well	Wellhouse	1510	Complete	A wellhouse constructed over a local spring. Built of Cornish granite ashlar, it has a steeply-pitched roof, built from courses of granite slabs that run the length of the building. Probably built by the Augustinian canons of the nearby priory of St Germans, to whom the site belonged.
Halliggye Fogou	Fogou	Iron Age	Remains	Located on the Trelowarren estate near Helston, it consists of a long narrow tunnel leading to three sectioned chambers, and a window-like entrance which was dug in Victorian times by supposed treasure hunters. The complex of passages has a roof and walls of stone, and is the largest and best-preserved of several mysterious underground tunnels associated with Cornish Iron Age settlements.
Hurlers Stone Circles	Stone circle	Neolithic	Remains	A group of three stone circles. The site is half-a-mile west of the village of Minions on the eastern flank of Bodmin Moor. The circles have diameters of 35m, 42m and 33m. The two outer stone circles are circular, the middle and largest stone circle, however, is slightly elliptical.
King Doniert's Stone	Stone Cross	9th Century	Remains	Consists of two pieces of a decorated 9th century cross. The inscription is believed to commemorate Dungarth, King of Cornwall who died around 875. The site also includes an underground passage and chamber.
Launceston Castle	Castle	11th Century	Ruins	A Norman motte and bailey earthwork castle raised by Robert, Count of Mortain, half-brother of William the Conqueror shortly after the Norman conquest. It became the administrative headquarters for the powerful Earls of Cornwall where they could control the vast estates that they owned throughout the area. The castle remained with little development, apart from an inner keep added in the 12th century. During the 13th century, Richard, Earl of Cornwall, a younger brother of Henry III began to rebuild the castle in stone.
Pendennis Castle	Device fort	1539	Partly complete	A Henrician castle, also known as one of Henry VIII's Device Forts. Built for King Henry VIII to guard the entrance to the River Fal on its west bank, near Falmouth. St Mawes Castle is its opposite number on the east bank and they were built to defend Carrick Roads from the French and Spanish threats of future attack. The castle comprises a simple round tower and gate enclosed by a lower curtain wall.
Penhallam	Manor House	12th Century	Ruins	The site of a former medieval manor house surrounded by a protective moat. Abandoned during the mid-14th century. Penhallam is one of only four such moated medieval manor sites in Cornwall and it consists of a quadrangle of buildings around a central courtyard. The manor was originally reached by a drawbridge over the moat. Later on in the 13th Century a fixed stone bridge was built.
Restormel Castle	Castle	12th Century	Ruins	Situated on the River Fowey near Lostwithiel, it is one of the four chief Norman castles of Cornwall, the others being Launceston, Tintagel and Trematon. The castle is notable for its perfectly circular design. Although once a luxurious residence to the Earl of Cornwall, the castle became ruined in the years after.
St Breock Downs Monolith	Monolith	Neolithic	Remains	A 5m high prehistoric standing stone located near St Breock.
St Catherine's Castle	Device fort	1530's	Remains	A small fort commissioned by Henry VIII. It is a two-storey building built to protect Fowey Harbour. A twin battery of 64-pdr RMLS was added on a lower terrace in 1855. One emplacement was modified in WWII to mount a 4.7" naval gun inside a concrete shelter, but was later removed to restore the Victorian gun races.
St Mawes Castle	Device fort	1540's	Remains	St Mawes Castle and its larger sister castle, Pendennis, were built as part of a defensive chain of fortresses by Henry VIII to protect the south coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. This chain of coastal fortifications are known as Henrician Castles or Device Forts
Tintagel Castle	Castle	13th Century	Ruins	A medieval fortification located on the peninsula of Tintagel Island. It saw settlement during the Early Medieval period, when it was probably one of the seasonal residences of the regional king of Dumnonia. In the 13th century, during the Later Medieval period, after Cornwall had been subsumed into the kingdom of England, a castle was built on the site by Richard, Earl of Cornwall.
Tregiffian Burial Chamber	Tomb	Neolithic	Remains	A Neolithic or early Bronze Age chambered tomb, comprising an entrance passage, lined with stone slabs, leading to a central chamber, located near Lamorna in west Cornwall.
Trethevy Quoit	Tomb	Neolithic	Remains	A well-preserved megalithic tomb located near St Cleer. It is known locally as "the giant's house" and stands 2.7m high, and consists of five standing stones capped by a large slab.