Woodmanton Moat

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Wodemanton

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

C14 and C15 moated Woodmanton Manor House, now forms the kitchen-block of C19 brick Woodmanton Farmhouse. An application for a licence to crenellate was made in 1332 by John de Wisham. Four turrets were built at each corner of the square house. It was altered in C16. In 1827, much of the former building was rebuilt in brick as an L-shaped farmhouse. Only the Northern turret and adjoining parts remain, and they have been converted to the kitchen range. There have been suggestions formerly that a chapel existed at Woodmanton manor house, but this is probably a confusion with the former chapel at the parish church. Woodmanton is a DMV.

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

listed building

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The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SO71926047

PastScape number; 114215

Books

Salter, Mike, 2000, Castles of Herefordshire and Worcestershire (Malvern) p84
Emery, Anthony, 2000, Greater Medieval Houses Vol2 (Cambridge) p459
Pevsner, N., 1968, The Buildings of England Worcestershire p122
Montgomerie, 1924, in Page, Wm and Willis-Bund, J.W. (eds), VCH, Worcester Vol4 p247
Turner, T.H. and Parker, J.H., 1859, Some account of Domestic Architecture in England (Oxford) Vol3 pt2 p410

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 (1330-34) p242

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Woodmanton Moat

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SO71926047

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