Ewhurst Manor, Shermanbury

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Ewherst

In the civil parish of Shermanbury.
In the historic county of Sussex (Modern Authority of West Sussex, 1974 county of West Sussex).

Thomas Peverel built a moated manor house here in the reign of Edward I. The moat remains but of the building itself the only survival is the Gateway with the porter's lodge attached to it. Early C14. Built of stone and consists of a carriage arch flanked by buttresses with a room over surmounted by gable containing a cross-shaped loop window. The roof of the archway is of brick with ribbed stone vaulting. Behind the gateway is the porter's lodge which forms a T-shaped building with it of lower elevation. These walls are of stone rubble with a tiled roof timbered beneath. The portion on the west has a trefoil-headed lancet. The portion on each side has an old door connecting with centre, complete with its original bolt. The house now on the site is part of a C16 house, originally of larger dimensions.

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

This site is a scheduled monument protected by law.
This site is a Grade 1 listed building protected by law*. (Images of England number 298639, 298638)

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is TQ211190

PastScape number; 399006

Books

Salter, Mike, 2002, Index and Amendments to Mike Salter's English Castles Books (Malvern) p7
Guy, John, 1984, Castles in Sussex (Phillimore) p127
Elwes, Dudley George Cary, 1876, A history of the Castles, Mansions, and Manors of Western Sussex (London: Longmans) p189-90
Turner, T.H. and Parker, J.H., 1859, Some account of Domestic Architecture in England (Oxford) Vol3 pt2 p318

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*The listed building may not be the actual medieval building, but a building on the site of, or incorporating fragments of, the described site.

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Ewhurst Manor, Shermanbury

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is TQ211190

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