West Tower and Elizabethan Range/Chamber Block- Helmsley Castle (3 x PiPs)

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At the same time as the west tower was being built in about 1200, a chamber block was raised next to it. The chamber block provided the main accommodation for the castle's residents, and probably consisted of a ground floor; or undercroft, with a single large room on the upper floor; open to the roof. this building was transformed from the 1570's into part of an Elizabethan mansion.