BROUGHTON CASTLE

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A fortified manor house, built in the early 14th century and extended and remodelled in the 15th, 16th and 18th centuries. Restored in the 19th and 20th centuries. The original house included a large hall with the private apartments at one end and the kitchen and ancillary rooms at the other. Some of the original range of buildings, including the kitchen at the western end, were partially demolished in the 16th century and their foundations lie below the present structure. The house stands on a large island, surrounded by a broad moat. Stonework in the moat, visible when the water level is lowered, indicates that it was originally more regular in width, with angled corners forming an octagonal plan.

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(SP 4180 3817) Broughton Castle (NR)
(SP 4182 3825) Tower (NR) (1)

Exceptional example of early 14th century moated house with 16th cent. alterations and additions, there is a two-storeyed gate
house and notable vaulting and chapel. Grade I. (2)

The remains of the house seem to be mainly 16th.c. except
for the original chapel wing. The gateway and "embattled wall"
are in good condition, the moat waterfilled. Outstanding, see
GPs. (3)

SP 41783819. Broughton Castle. Moated and fortified manor house, built in the early 14th century and extended and remodelled in the mid 16th century. Scheduled (not house) and Listed Grade I. (8)

Listed by Cathcart King. (9)

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

DOE (HHR) Oxfordshire, District of Cherwell, 14th November 1985, 73-4

( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 6" NSL

( 2) General reference

Ministry of Housing and Local Government 1899/11/A undated 31

( 3) Field Investigators Comments

F1 ANK 12-MAY-70

( 5) The Victoria history of the counties of England

Oxfordshire 9 (1969) Page(s)89-92

( 6) The buildings of England

N. Pevsner, J. Sherwood (1974 ) Oxfordshire Page(s)492-98

( 7) Royal Archaeological Institute The archaeological journal

135 (1978) Page(s)138-194

(8) Scheduled Monument Notification

16-JUL-2003

(9) 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)385

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