Rye House, Hertfordshire | |
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![]() The gatehouse of Rye House (2009),[1] the only surviving part of the manor house | |
General information | |
Location | Lee Valley Park, Hoddesdon |
Coordinates | 51°46′16″N 0°00′25″E / 51.7711°N 0.007°E |
Construction started | c.1443 |
Rye House in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire is a former fortified manor house, located in what is now the Lee Valley Regional Park. The gatehouse is the only surviving part of the structure and is a Grade I listed building.[2] The house gave its name to the Rye House Plot, an assassination attempt of 1683 that was a violent consequence of the Exclusion Crisis in British politics at the end of the 1670s.
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