More information : A 15th century list refers to a tower at Middleton. (1)
"Two stone houses or castells" were mentioned at Middleton in 1542. The present Middleton Hall is modern, but the old hall which stood at the bottom of the present pleasure ground, where there are two sycamores, might have been one of them. The foundations of an old fortalice in the adjacent field represent the remains of the other. (2)
There are no visible remains of either tower or of the old hall,
and the former 'pleasure garden' with its two sycamores is unknown to the Agent (Greenwich Hospital Estates) and could not be traced. (3)
The tower was built by one of the Muschamp family before 1415. After 1587 the estate, with the tower, passed to the armorer family who added wings to the tower. In the 1880's the tower and adjacent wings were demolished and replaced by the present Middleton Hall. (4,5) |