Barley Hall
Medieval timber-framed townhouse rebuilt as a living-history house, furnished as in the late 1400s.
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This guide to Barley Hall in York, a timber-framed townhouse tucked off Coffee Yard, opens on a single word a conservation society once used about it, and asks whether it was fair. It reaches back to the monks of Nostell Priory around thirteen sixty, and forward to a plumber's showroom slated for demolition in the nineteen eighties. Best heard in the narrow lane outside, before you step through the door.
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