More information : [ST 3480 2767] Moat [G.T.] Slough Farm [T.I.] (1)
Slough Farm is a very remarkable survival of early Tudor date. It is a small manor house with buttressed round archway, a two-storeyed porch and mullioned windows. Most of the original hall remains. There was formerly a moat and an oratory here. (2-3)
Slough Farm House, at ST 3477 2770, is of outstanding architectural interest. (See G.Ps AO/65/242/3 & 4). The south-western half of a surrounding water-filled moat survives, but the rest has been filled in and built over.
In 1337 John atte Slo (Slough), of North Currey, was granted right of divine services in his oratory. (4)
The house is now known as "Slough Court". The building and moat are unchanged and correctly shown on the OS 1:2500. (5)
II* Slough Farmhouse *House banded stone with tile roof. Ashlar and brick stacks. Flat coping to gables. Wood casements and stone mullioned windows. 2 s. Two-storeyed porch with four-centred arched doorway. Diamond shaped stones on inset over doorway. C.16 and later. (6)
Late medieval fortified manor house, altered in the late 16th century and altered and partly rebuilt in the mid 19th century. Built as an open hall house, now L-shaped in plan with a 19th century porch. The remains of the medieval moat survive to the south of the house. A 16th century gateway abuts the north west front, on the site of an earlier drawbridge over the moat. The gateway comprises a buttressed archway with low walls and is thought to represent an entrance through a curtain wall rather than the remains of a gatehouse. Listed Grade II* and II. (7) |