More information : (SO 65589240) Upton Cressett Hall (NR) (SO 65609236) Gate House (NR) (SO 65559243) Moat (NR) (1) At Upton Cressett the fine Tudor brick gate-house circa 1540 and manor house circa 1580, and the neglected Norman church are the sole remnants of a once extensive village. Earthworks can be traced, but are partially hidden by trees and thick undergrowth. The manor and gate-house are both disused and dilapidated. Grade II*. (2-5) Resurveyed at 1:2500. (6) In the ploughed field adjacent and west of the hall are visible dark stains. The footpath marked on the map that runs southeast down the side of the orchard, is a well marked hollow way. In the orchard to the southwest of this there are earthworks, at least one good platform and several other possible ones, the earthworks extending beyond the orchard to the field adjoining to the southeast. The field to the north-east does not appear to contain earthworks. Both these fields are under pasture, there is some building stone in evidence in the field of earthworks. On the other side of the hall, parallel to, and north of the stream, is a long bank. To the northeast and northwest of the hall is an 'L' shaped bank, which might represent the remains of a moat (or ha-ha). A well preserved deserted Medieval village, Grade B, on MVRG rating. (7) Recent examination has shown that there was a Medieval Hall on the site and that in the mid 16th century this was encased in brick. (8) Upton Cressett Hall has now been restored, and is occupied and open to the public. There are deserted Medieval village earthworks to the south-east of the Hall, with ten possible building platforms, and well preserved earthworks up to 1.6m in height, on a south-east facing slope north of the church, with nine possible building platforms. A deep hollow way runs north-west into an area of well preserved rig and furrow, measuring 6.0m between rigs. The incomplete moat, now dry, on the north-west of the hall, averages 16.0m in width and 2.2m in depth. The 'Long bank' referred to by Burrow (7) extends from SO 65499244 to SO 65589249. It formerly retained water in two ponds on its south and north sides, and it has been dug away at its north-east end. The remains of the pond-bay on the south at SO 65539245 measures 0.8m in height on the upstream side, and 2.4m on the downstream side. The other pond-bay (SO 6558 9250) averages 1.1m in height. Earthworks surveyed at 1/2500 on MSD. (9)
Noted in a list of Moated sites in Shropshire (10)
SO 6556 9241. Upton Cressett moat and fishponds. Scheduled (RSM).(11) |