More information : (SP 16927280) Packwood Hall: Moat (GT)
Packwood Hall is the manor-house of the parish, it is enclosed by a moat full of water and there is little doubt, that it was on this site that the monks of Coventry maintained an establishment... There are traces of an outer moat around the outbuildings to the west ... That there were two moats may be deduced from the fact that 'near moat meadow' and 'far moat meadow' are recorded on the Tithe Map. There is a possibility that what was believed to be an outer moat was really the remains of the former fishponds. While some of the house is modern, there is a considerable portion - the whole of the eastern wing, which is of the "Stuart period". (2)
Packwood Hall is as described above. No traces of an outer moat or fishponds to the west could be identified but there is a pondbay at SP 17037286. Published survey (25" 1960) revised. (3)
In 1410, the Prior of Coventry had at Packwood "a manor surrounded with pools'. (4)
The east end of the north wing of Packwood Hall displays timber framing but all the windows are modern. Surrounding the house is a sub-rectangular waterfilled moat with a rounded north east corner. It measures, overall, 110.0m north-south by 75.0m transversely. The arms, with near-vertical sides, average 10.0m in width and 1.2m deep to water level. The moat is filled by surface drainage or by a spring. The pond bay to the north west carrying a farm road, is 24.0m in length and 1.0m in height. It is below the moat, not the normal
position for a fishpond.
Published 1:2500 survey correct. (5) |