What is recorded here

Fire broke through Torksey Castle in 1645 when Royalist troops captured the Parliamentarian garrison, leaving charred beams still visible inside the ruined rooms. The house stood for the Jermyn family before passing through several owners, but the western facade remains on the River Trent floodplain with four octagonal towers, zig-zag fireplaces and a Tudor rose in the kitchen hearth. Ivy now climbs the cracks that fire and time opened, turning a mansion into a scaffold for memory.

The National Heritage List for England records Torksey Castle as a scheduled monument. The saved point comes from the centre supplied by the official record. Listing does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Torksey Castle was built by the Normans in the 11th century, following the Harrying of the North, to control the strategic crossing point of the River Trent. It is remembered as an important military and administrative site in the post-Conquest consolidation of English territory.

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