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ENMORE CASTLE

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Country house, the remnant of a mansion, built shortly before 1779, reduced to its present size circa 1830 and further altered in the mid 20th century. The original mansion included a central courtyard with stables and offices in a large undercroft, which still survives. Probably built on the site of an earlier moated fortified house.

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[ST 23923526] Enmore Castle [T.I.] (1)

The original castle at Enmore is said to have been pulled down in the 18th c. and a large mansion, of which the present house is
only a remnant, was built shortly before 1779. Collinson (3)
described a dry moat surrounding the building and Mackenzie (4) accepts this as part of the defences of the earlier manor house. There is a 1762 (5) account of a drawbridge over this moat. Pevsner gives a detailed description of the house, which was reduced to its present size c.1830. (2-5)

There is no trace of a moat surrounding Enmore Castle, but its
course may be represented by underground brick-lined cellarage which encloses the house on the E. W & S. sides. (6)

Listed by Cathcart King. (7)

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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 6" 1962.

( 2) Notes and queries for Somerset and Dorset

Som. & Dorset N.&Q. 20, 1930-2, 1071. 20 Page(s)1071

( 3) General reference

History of Somerset, 1, 1791, 94 (Collinson).

( 4) General reference

Castles of England 1887, 2, 57, (J. Mackenzie)

( 5) General reference

London Magazine, 1762, 439.

( 6) Field Investigators Comments

F1 JP 03-NOV-64

(7) David J Cathcart King 1983 Castellarium anglicanum : an index and bibliography of the castles in England, Wales and the Islands. Volume II : Norfolk-Yorkshire and the islands

Page(s)446

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