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About 1.5 miles southwest of Wappenham, in Northamptonshire, England, sits Astwell Castle, a manor house. It is located in the parish of Helmdon and is a Grade II listed building. One of the first families to own this manor since the Conquest were the De Wauncys. It went down to the Brookes from them. Through a familial agreement with cousin of his mother, Dowse Billing and her husband William Brooke, Thomas Lovett II purchased Astwell on April 24, 1471, in return for his inherited holdings. Lovett started building the house. The next possessor was grandson of Lovett , George Shirley. Era of Lovett is represented by the beleaguered gatehouse tower with the lower attachment on the left. Only a portion of a massive courtyard house with more than forty rooms that was accumulated under successive owners in the 16th and 17th centuries by the Lovett and Shirley families remains to the west. It still features arched-light windows with mullions, indicating that it was built in the 16th century rather than the 17th. Above the four-centered arch is a fireplace with a wide frieze of straightforward geometrical designs. Ranges were added to the house, on south and west sides, which were constructed up to or over the moat, according to designs from the early 18th century. These could have something to do with filling in the moat and laying out a garden with formal terraces on the house, east and south sides. Both in the 19th century and in 1957, when the house was remodeled and the roof timbers were replaced, the south range of the building underwent changes. #History #Architecture #Castles

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