CHEYLESMORE MANOR HOUSE

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The manor originated in the 13th or 14th century. All that remains of it is the 16th century gatehouse which is in use as a register office.

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(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)

Additional information. (5)

History as a royal possession. (6)

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(1) Annotated Record Map

OS 1:1250 1971.

(2) Field Investigators Comments

F1 FDC 18-APR-1968.

(2 a) General reference

Chatwin PB 1952. Castles in Warwickshire.

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

DOE (HHR) West Midlands, District of Coventry Jun-1974 44.

(4) edited by William Page 1908 The Victoria history of the county of Warwick, volume two

The Victoria history of the counties of England Page(s)19-21

(5) Internet reference

www.exponet.co.uk/hstoric-Cov/manor-house.asp L Goldie 30-AUG-2002

(6) R Allen Brown, H M Colvin and A J Taylor 1963 The history of the King's Works, volume 2 : the Middle Ages

Page(s)909-10

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