Strensham Moat Farm

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Strengesham

In the civil parish of Strensham.
In the historic county of Worcestershire (Modern Authority of Worcestershire, 1974 county of Hereford and Worcester).

The earthwork remains of a castle and moat licensed to be crenellated in 1388. The site was garrisoned in the Civil War by the Royalists. Earthworks resembling artillery emplacements on bastions at each corner of the moat probably date from this period. Though it has been suggested that these are later garden features. The castle was slighted after the fall of Worcester in 1646. Two concentric moats and a intermediate rampart survive as earthworks. To the west is an C18 farm. This is believed to be the site of an oratory built in 1288. The earthworks are scheduled and the farmhouse, which may embody earlier masonry, is listed.

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

A Royal licence to crenellate was granted in 1388 Feb 12.

This site is a scheduled monument protected by law.
This site is a Grade 2 listed building protected by law*. (Images of England number 445360)

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SO90464048

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; 118202

Books

Emery, Anthony, 2000, Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales 1300-1500 Vol2 (Cambrigde Univesity Press) p343
Salter, Mike, 2000, The Castles of Herefordshire and Worcestershire (Malvern) p84
Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p280 [slight]
Salter, Mike, 1993, Midlands Castles (Birmingham) p73
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p507
Montgomerie, 1924, in Page, Wm and Willis-Bund, J.W. (eds), VCH, Worcester Vol4 p202, 431-3 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=42880
Turner, T.H. and Parker, J.H., 1859, Some account of Domestic Architecture in England (Oxford) Vol3 pt2 p253, 420

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 (1385-89) p446

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

William Camden, 1607, Britannia [http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/cambrit/warkseng.html#worcs9]

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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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