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GRESHAM CASTLE

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Medieval fortified manor house or castle, now ruinous. A licence to crenellate was granted in 1319 and it was captured in 1450. Portions of walls and corner bastions are visible through dense undergrowth.

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(TG 16663807) CASTLE (NR) (Remains of) MOAT (NR) (1)

Fortified medieval manor house with moat. Portions of the outer wall remain as well as foundations, all neglected and overgrown. Probably C15th, resembling nearby Baconsthorpe Hall (TG 13 NW 1).

Castle, now ruinous. Medieval; licence to fortify granted in 1319. Flint. Plan, square with corner turrets. Moated site. Walls now 1.0m - 3.0m high. Circa 40 metres square with corner turrets clOm diameter, these at north east, north west and south west visible. Inside the walls now overgrown, the wall now a retaining wall for earth inside. Grade II. (2)

Moat cleaned out 1846. Massive timbers of old drawbridge, keel of boat and pottery found. Also entrance to subterranean passage. (3)

Nothing now stands to a substantial height and everything is swamped with trees, bushes and nettles. A licence to crenellate was granted in 1319 to Sir Edmund Bacon. (4)

Impossible to penetrate the island due to a dense covering of
brambles, briars and undergrowth. The published walls and corner bastions are visible from without, and consist entirely of flint. 25" survey revised. (5)

It was captured from Sir John Paston by Lord Moleyns in 1450 in a private quarrel, although not seriously defended. (6)

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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 6" 1907

( 2) List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest

DOE (HHR) Erpingham RD 1947 10

( 3) Annotated Record Map

Corr 6" (R R Clarke)

( 3a) General reference

White's Norfolk Directory

( 4) The Buildings of England

North-East Norfolk and Norwich 1962 Page(s)155

( 5) Field Investigators Comments

F1 BHS 22-SEP-69

(6) David J Cathcart King 1983 Castellarium anglicanum : an index and bibliography of the castles in England, Wales and the Islands. Volume II : Norfolk-Yorkshire and the islands

Page(s)307

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