Willimontswyke

  • Description

    A 16th century manor house, incorporating earlier building remains and largely rebuilt circa 1900. The 16th century gatehouse also survives. Air photographs show a number of earthwork features to the south and east of the manor house, including the foundations of possible buildings and other structures, a trackway, boundaries and ridge and furrow cultivation. ...The first structure at Willimontswyke, on the site of the present manor-house, was an oblong barmkin, constructed in the mid 12th or early 13th centuries, to which angle towers were added in the late 13thc.....
  • Owner

    Heritage Gaterway - Historic England
  • Source

    Local (Co-Curate)
  • License

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  • Further information

    Link: https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=15451&resourceID=19191
    Resource type: Text/Website
    Added by: Simon Cotterill
    Last modified: 1 week ago
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    Picture Taken: Unknown
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