| Summary : An important medieval house dating to about 1300, originally comprising an open hall, cross passage, service wing, tower and parlour/solar block. The tower is probably defensive in origin and may predate the rest of the house. The open hall was floored over in the 17th century, the kitchen wing was added in the in the mid 18th century and the solar block was rebuilt after a fire in the 19th century. Hutchins noted a chapel there but there is no trace of it. |
More information : (SZ 01498021) Godlingston Farm formerly (NAT) Manor House (NR). (1)
At a very early period Godlingston became the property and seat of the family of Talbots, who afterwards owned it for several generations.
There are considerable remains of an old mansion still standing, the house is low and meanly built of rubble stone with scarcely any ornament, but it's antiquity gives it some interest.
Hutchins tells us there was anciently a chapel here, which in his time made part of it, but if such was the case it has been wholly destroyed. (2)
Now known as Godlingston Manor (a). The front door may be 13th century and the main part of the southern wall, the back (north) is probably 14th century. The oldest part is probably the tower in the west and the latest part is a slight extension on the east which was added in the 17th century. No information was obtained upon the site of the chapel. (3)
SZ 015802. Godlingston Manor, of one storey and attics and two storeys, was built probably circa 1300 on a rectangular plan with a rounded tower at the west end presumably as a defensive place. In the early 17th century the main part of the house was drastically altered and in the mid 18th century a kitchen wing was added to the north. The cross wing was rebuilt after a fire in the late 19th century. Grade 1. (4,5)
Godlingston Manor incorporates some remains of a semi-fortified stone house of circa 1300. (5b)
Godlingston Manor (name confirmed in very good condition. (6)
Godlingston Manor. Grade I. (7)
Listed as a strong house by Cathcart King. (8) |