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Kirby Knowle Castle is a seventeenth-century crenellated house. It stands on Whinmoor Hill, above the village of Kirby Knowle, at the foot of the Hambleton Hills, about 600 m from Upsall Castle. It is Grade II listed.
According to tradition, Roger Lascelles built a castle on the site in the late thirteenth century. The building burnt down around 1568, while it belonged to Sir John Constable, who died before completing the repairs. In the 1650s, James Danby repaired the older parts still standing, built the south front and the west wing, and renamed the house "New Building". In the late seventeenth century, the estate passed to the Rokeby family. The house was thoroughly restored and altered in 1875.
The present building, of ashlar under slate roofs, has three storeys. Its features include mullion-and-transom windows, a five-stage stair tower, a canted bay with an openwork parapet, and a high parapet with semicircular crenellations punctuated by obelisks. The property is privately owned.