Ingarsby Old Hall

In the civil parish of Hungarton.
In the historic county of Leicestershire (Modern Authority of Leicestershire, 1974 county of Leicestershire).

Late C15 country house incorporating a moated manor house which was granted to Leicester Abbey as a grange in 1352. The house was altered in 1706 and in C19 and C20. Built of ashlar with plinth of coursed rubble stone in part. The roof is of Swithland slate with brick end stacks and of Welsh slate to the rear of the building. The site includes a Medieval moat, a millpond (built 1352), stock enclosures surviving as earthworks and C17 bakehouse.

This site has been described as a;
Timber Castle.
The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Questionable.
Earthworks remains.

This site is a scheduled monument protected by law.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SK684053

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; 319116

Books

Cantor, L., 1998, The Historic Country Houses of Leicestershire and Rutland (Leicester; Kairos Press)
Wall, 1907, in Page, Wm, (ed), VCH Leicestershire Vol1 p213

Journal Articles

Coulson, C., 1994, 'Freedom to Crenellate by Licence - An Historiographical Revision' Nottingham Medieval Studies Vol38 p117n92
Williams, Daniel, 1974-5, 'Fortified Manor Houses' Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society Vol50 p1-16

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

Chandler, John, 1993, John Leland's Itinerary: travels in Tudor England (Sutton Publishing) p281

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