A crenellated 14th-century gatehouse at South Milford, carved with shields and grotesque heads and built more to impress than defend
Open accessfree to visit at any reasonable time
Two arched passages sit side by side in this two-storey stone gatehouse near South Milford, a wide one for carts and a narrow one for people on foot, probably built in the 1360s or 1370s for William de Reygate, a Yorkshire official who managed crown property and finances. A spiral stair in one corner climbs to a porter’s room and the roof, and around the top, 54 carved stone brackets, called corbels, are shaped as faces, animals and coats of arms, including the Reygate family’s own. The manor behind it was never fully walled like a castle. South Milford Station is a short walk away.
