Haltemprice Priory Farmhouse - Willerby, East Riding of Yorkshire, England
N 53° 45.846 W 000° 25.234
30U E 670017 N 5960363
An abandoned farmhouse on the site of an old Augustinian monastery, To get to the co-ordinates walk north from 'Car lane' over the little bridge or south from 'Abbots walk' in Cottingham
Waymark Code: WMQ7GJ
Location: Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 01/04/2016
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The farmhouse you see today was once the site of a priory that was built in the 1300's and destroyed in the 'Dissolution of the Monasteries' by Henry VIII. The farmhouse was built in 1584 using some of the priory’s stone work and was occupied up until 1988 before it became a derelict building and has been damaged by fire in the 1990’s and early 2000.
The reason the farm house is still there is because it is of 'Special Architectural Interest' and 'Historic interest' meaning it is a grade II listed building.
It is also the first of its type in the UK!