Huntingfield Old Hall

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Huntyngfeld

In the civil parish of Huntingfield.
In the historic county of Suffolk (Modern Authority of Suffolk, 1974 county of Suffolk).

House demolished in C18. Licence to crenellate granted to Sir Michael de la Pole in 1385. This licence may have resulted in the scottish style machiolated gatehouse and tower with bartizans shown in a early C18 drawing of the house. The house probably dated from before the date of the licence. Medieval moated site and ponds located on a slight south facing slope on a spur above the north side of the valley of the River Blyth. Three arms of the moat are visible as ditches, partly silted and now dry, which define the north east, north west and south east sides of a sub-rectangular central platform; a fourth arm on the south west side survives as a buried feature. The central platform has maximum dimensions of 70m by 55m, and the moat ditches measure from 7m-8 m in width. Building material and pottery dating from C13 -C17 found.

This site has been described as a;
Fortified Manor House.
The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Possible.
Masonry footings remains.

This site is a scheduled monument protected by law.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is TM33147380

PastScape number; 391601

Books

Emery, Anthony, 2000, Greater Medieval Houses Vol2 (Cambridge) p116
Turner, T.H. and Parker, J.H., 1859, Some account of Domestic Architecture in England (Oxford) Vol3 pt2 p419

Journal Articles

Coulson, C., 1994, 'Freedom to Crenellate by Licence - An Historiographical Revision' Nottingham Medieval Studies Vol38 p111

Primary (Medieval documents or transcriptions of such documents - This section is far from complete and the secondary sources should be consulted for full references.)

Calendar of Patent Rolls (1381-85) p555

Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)

William Camden, 1607, Britannia [http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/cambrit/essexeng.html#suff13]

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Huntingfield Old Hall

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is TM33147380

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