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Lullingstone Castle
Also known as, or recorded in historical
documents as; a castle 'towards Craye water'
In the civil parish of Eynsford.
In the historic county of Kent (Modern Authority of Kent, 1974 county of Kent).
Gatehouse, built 1543-1580. Brick-built and rectangular in plan with polygonal turrets. This formed the outer gatehouse to the house now known as Lullingstone Castle. Nothing else remains of this Tudor house. Situated within a medieval deer park and beside St Botolphs church which is of Norman origin.
King records 'an unidentified castle mentioned by Leland' Leland records as the site and premises being owned by Harte. Clearly somewhere near the Cray's in north west Kent. However, Camden writes 'Lullingston, where there was sometime a Castle, the seat of a family of the same name, but now of Sir Percival Harte' A branch of the Hart family still live here. At the time of Leland the Hart's owned much land in the area including Orkesdene (qv; a.k.a. Aston Lodge) another possible identification.
Hasted was of the opinion that the ancient Lullingstone Castle was nearby Shoreham Castle (qv) which was not a Hart possession, however it is possible that Leland (and others, including myself) have confused histories of these separate sites.
This site has been described as a;
Fortified Manor House.
The confidence
that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Questionable.
Masonry ruins/remnants remains.
This site is a
Grade 1 listed
building protected by law*. (Images
of England number 411975)
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is TQ52926441
PastScape number;
410359
- Web site links
- Books
- King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol1 p237 [possible]
Newman, John, 1976, The buildings of England: West Kent and the Weald (Harmondsworth) p387
Hasted, Edward, 1797 (2edn), A History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent Vol1 p539-46
- Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)
- William Camden, 1607, Britannia [http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/cambrit/kenteng.html#kent83]
Chandler, John, 1993, John Leland's Itinerary: travels in Tudor England (Sutton Publishing) p250
Toulmin-Smith, Lucy (ed), 1910, The itinerary of John Leland in or about the years 1535-1543 (Bell and Sons; London) Vol4 p47
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