Clennell Hall is an historic manor house, now operated as a country hotel, situated at Clennell, near

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. It is a

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. The Clennell family held the manor of Clennell from the 13th century. In a survey of 1541 the

tower house A tower house is a particular type of stone structure, built for defensive purposes as well as habitation. Tower houses began to appear in the Middle Ages, especially in mountainous or limited access areas, to command and defend strategic points ...

at Clennell was described as 'a little tower of Percival Clennell' then newly repaired with a

barmkin Barmkin, also spelled barmekin or barnekin, is a Scots word which refers to a form of medieval and later defensive enclosure, typically found around smaller castles, tower houses, pele towers, and bastle houses in Scotland and the north of Engla ...

under construction. In 1715 it was the seat of Luke Clennell, (

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in 1727) and comprised an old tower on the east, a double wing at the west and a small court to the south with a 'handsome gateway'. In 1749 Philadelphia Clennell, the heiress of the estate married William Wilkinson, (High Sheriff in 1758). In 1895 their great grandson Anthony Wilkinson greatly extended the property by the addition of a large Tudor style mansion. The present building incorporates a

pele tower Peel towers (also spelt pele) are small fortified keeps or tower houses, built along the English and Scottish borders in the Scottish Marches and North of England, mainly between the mid-14th century and about 1600. They were free-standing ...

of 1589, much altered.

References

* ''History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland'' (1835) John Burke Vol I p70 ({{ISBN, 978-0-8063-0742-8)

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