Milcote Manor

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Mylcote; Mountgrevell

In the civil parish of Milcote.
In the historic county of Warwickshire (Modern Authority of Warwickshire, 1974 county of Warwickshire).

Listed as site of castle by Harvey. Lewis Grevill was granted a licence to build a new manor house at Mylcote and embattle it and call it Mountgrevell in 1567. Possible the moated manor house site now occupied by C17 building Milcote Manor Farm (SP17125244) although the VCH suggests this house was one belonging to the Earl of Middlesex and that Grevill's house was at the reference given. There are no remains of this house and moat, which was possible the one recorded as being burnt by Parliamentary troops in 1644. Why were two such high status houses built so close together in such a rural setting? Grevell's house,which the VCH records as never finished but as still standing in 1730, would have been 50 years old by the time Crenfield, the earl of Middlesex, was building. There was a deer park which was licensed with the house.

This site has been described as a;
Fortified Manor House.
The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Possible.
Nothing visible remains.

A Royal licence to crenellate was granted in 1567 Oct 28.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SP17705199

Modern Map from Good for landscape form and features	Modern Map from Good for general location
Air Photo from	1st edition OS Map from

Sources of information, references and further reading

PastScape number; 330999, 331014, 333060

County Sites and Monuments Record number; 1340, 1293, 1331

• Web site links
  • http://timetrail.warwickshire.gov.uk/detail.aspx?monuid=WA1340
    http://timetrail.warwickshire.gov.uk/detail.aspx?monuid=WA1293
    http://timetrail.warwickshire.gov.uk/detail.aspx?monuid=WA1331
• Books
  • Salzman, L.F. (ed), 1949, VCH Warwickshire Vol5 p198, 200
    Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (Methuen and Co)