More information : (SP33377865) Cheylesmore Manor House [NR].(1)
Cheylesmore Manor House and Gate house, erected in the C13th or C14th. See GP.(2)
Cheylesmore Manor. C16th Manor gatehouse incorporating parts of two wings of a C14th manor house, C15th first floor of the North wing, and C16th newel staircase. Grade II*.(3)
Cheylesmore Manor House is known to have existed by 1250. A forerunner may have existed as Cheylesmore Park, (SP37NW116), and was in existence in ca.1150. During the mid-C14th, it was a favourite residence of the Black Prince and Queen Isabel. At that time it was probably moated, some remains of the moat surviving into the C16th. The house was ruinous by 1538-9, the hall being `down', but the lodgings remaining fit for repair. It was rebuilt between 1661 and 1685,but by the mid-C19th had been divided into tenements and weaver's huts. In 1945, two ranges of timber-framed buildings survived, one incorporating the gatehouse. It is thought that these formed the South and East sides of an irregular courtyard, the gatehouse being in the centre of the East side. The Great Hall may have been opposite to it on the West side. In 1955, a building forming the West end of the South side was demolished. It was a two-storeyed structure of six bays, and judging from the roof beams, of C14th date. The gatehouse itself is C14th, but stands on an earlier structure.(4)
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History as a royal possession. (6) |