English resistance was reduced to a few isolated castles, walled towns and fortified manor houses.

To the south by the river Stour, dating from the 15th century, is a single surviving tower of Caldwall ( or Caldwell ) Castle, a fortified manor house.

The château was originally a fortified manor dating back to 1368 and, although amputated of one of its sides at the time of Napoleon I, it still retains its pentagonal bastioned footprint.

No remains of this castle ( most likely a fortified manor house ) remain, although it was built on the site of the present castle.

The castle-more properly a fortified manor house typical of many medieval houses in the North of England-guards one of the few approaches to Alnwick through the hills to its west.

Tattershall Castle has its origins in either a stone castle or a fortified manor house, built by Robert de Tateshale in 1231.

The site of the manor house was in Castle Park ; the building was of stone and was fortified.

Stokesay Castle is a fortified manor house in Stokesay, a mile south of the town of Craven Arms, in southern Shropshire.

Newark Castle " was originally a Saxon fortified manor house, founded by King Edward the Elder.

The Schlokenbeck estate ensemble in Milzkalne, dating from the 15th century, is the only fortified manor house in Latvia.

The site originated as a Norman fortified manor house in the 12th century founded by Alain de Parrhoet, la Zouch, out of Breton, France.

Sherborne is famous for its historic buildings, including its abbey, a manor house, its famous independent schools, and two castles ( the ' old castle ' ruins of a 12th century fortified palace, and a ' new ' 16th century mansion, known as Sherborne Castle, built by Sir Walter Raleigh ).

The most imposing early building in the town would have been Bury Castle, a medieval fortified manor house.

When Sir Lancelot Docwra arrived to reclaim the property, Throckmorton had fortified the manor house and refused to allow the Hospitallers entry.

The bishop had a residence in Stockton Castle, which was just a fortified manor house.

The fortified manor house was replaced by Caversham Park in the 16th century.

Other interesting architectural buildings include a late-Renaissance palace originally built as a fortified manor house, the Church of the Corpus Christi erected in 1743, and numerous Baroque houses from the 18th century, converted in the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century.

The manor was fortified in 1312 by the construction of a defensive gatehouse.

However whereas the manor at Brill was destroyed in the fighting, the fortified manor at Boarstall was saved, and used as a garrison by John Hampden's men, from which they were able to attack Royalist Oxford, away.

The gatehouse was built by John de Haudlo in 1312 and is all that remains of Boarstall House, a fortified manor house that was demolished in 1778.

The ancient manor house in the village, which was fortified in 1304, was largely burnt down, but parts of it still remain in a farm house just outside the main village.

Thus a defensive building might be designed and built with battlements, or a manor house might be fortified by adding battlements, where no parapet previously existed, or cutting crenellations into its existing parapet wall.

The school is built on the site of Manchester Castle, a fortified manor house owned by the Grelleys after the Norman Conquest, at the confluence of the River Irwell and the River Irk.

The Grelleys replaced the castle with a fortified manor house, which in turn was replaced by a college of priests ( founded in 1421 ).

MacPherson boldly approached the fortified adobe house and demanded entrance.

The permission did not extend to the sale of spirits and fortified wines, and any beer house discovered selling those items was closed down and the owner heavily fined.

In cities where there were limitation of space such as in Qingzhou ( 青州 ), a new fortified town would be purposely erected to house the Banner garrison and their families.

Milam and Colonel Frank W. Johnson led two columns of men into the city, and for the next few days they fought their way from house to house towards the fortified plazas where the Mexican soldiers waited.

Following the murder some residents of Chicago moved into the fort while the rest fortified themselves in a house that had belonged to Charles Jouett, an Indian Agent.

Charles decided to build a heavily fortified castle Vredenburg to house a large garrison whose chief task would be to maintain order in the city.

When not fighting, chivalric knights typically resided in a castle or fortified house, while some knights lived in the courts of kings, dukes and other great lords.

The ruined Hussey Tower is all that remains of a medieval brick fortified house.

In Texas, Wales and his companions are cornered in a ranch house which is fortified to withstand Indian raids.

The fortified tower and Chapel of St Anne house the Musée de la Castre.

Attached to the nearby Dilham Hall is a fifteenth century tower, all that remains of Dilham Castle, a fifteenth century fortified house.

The name of this settlement is mentioned as Anescede or Enscede meaning either " near the border " ( with Bentheim ) or " near the Es " and sported a church, a marketplace and a fortified aristocratic house.

In the summer of 1781, John Carpenter built Carpenter's Fort or Carpenter's Station as it was sometimes called, a fortified house above the mouth of Short Creek on the Ohio side of the Ohio River, near present day Marietta.

Tower houses were being built up until the 1640s ; after the Restoration the fortified tower house fell out of fashion, but the weak state of the Scottish economy was such that while many larger properties were simply abandoned, the more modest castles continued to be used and adapted as houses, rather than rebuilt.

* Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire: Medieval fortified keep and house with state apartments.

* Haddon Hall, Derbyshire: Medieval fortified hall house round courtyard.

He hired men to use lumber from the Dakota reservation to build a fortified house and surrounded it with a sod stockade eight feet tall.

The Saviles remained here until the English Civil War when the house was besieged, ( having been previously fortified by Sir William Savile, the third baronet of the family ), taken, and demolished by the forces of Parliament.