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Awards
- Short-listed (short-list of six) for Country Life and Savills THE NATION’S FINEST MANOR HOUSE (2006)
- Winner of the Historic Houses Association and Sotheby’s FINEST RESTORATION AWARD (2008).
Quotations
“In all England, there is no more perfect or beautiful example of a small fortified manor house of the early 14th century than this gem, hidden so securely away in the lovely, rolling, heavily wooded country to the south of Fountains Abbey”
J L Illingworth, Yorkshire’s Ruined Castles
“Surely one of the most romantic houses left in England”
D B Camm, Forgotten Shrines
“Markenfield is truly one of Yorkshire’s most astonishing hidden gems… When you get there, you feel you have entered a time warp. This is one of the last remaining mediaeval, moated and fortified manor houses in Britain – and it is still in private hands, and occupied”
Sir Thomas Ingilby, Yorkshire’s Great Houses
“Markenfield… remains one of the most celebrated mediaeval residences in England, its picturesque and rambling outline reflected delightfully in the waters of the encircling moat… Markenfield is at last being loved and cared for as it should be”
John Goodall, Country Life 18 June 2008
“The restored Chapel has one of the loveliest small piscinas that I have ever seen in any church… Markenfield is a rare treasure in the hands of dedicated custodians”
Sir Simon Jenkins, England’s Thousand Best Houses
“This wonderfully little-altered building is the most complete surviving example of a medium-sized fourteenth century house in England”
John Martin Robinson, The Architecture of Northern England
“Yorkshire’s best kept secret”
The Yorkshire Post
“Obviously a much-loved family home”
“A lovely and curious gem”
“This place has a soul”
Some recent entries in the Hall’s Visitors’ Book
