Hinton House, Hinton St George

In the civil parish of Hinton St George.
In the historic county of Somerset (Modern Authority of Somerset, 1974 county of Somerset).

Leland writes 'There used to be a very old manor house at Hinton, but all that is to be seen there now is a very fine manor house of freestone, which has in the inner courtyard two good tall castellated towers. It was built by Sir Amias Poulet, the father of the present owner, Sir Hugh Poulet, who has recently constructed a park on a hillside not far from his house.' Some parts of the late medieval house survive in later rebuildings. It is uncertain how much the castellated towers reported by Leland were defensive.

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.

listed building

Images of England

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is ST41801236

PastScape number; 193481

Books

Dunning, R.W. (ed), 1978, VCH Somerset Vol4 p41-44
Pevsner, N., 1958, The Buildings of England: South and west Somerset (London, Penguin) p198

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

Chandler, John, 1993, John Leland's Itinerary: travels in Tudor England (Sutton Publishing) p421

Most of the sites or buildings recorded in this web site are NOT open to the public and permission to visit a site must always be sought from the landowner or tenant

The information on this web page may be derived from information compiled by and/or copyright of English Heritage and other individuals and organisations.

It is an offence to disturb a Scheduled Monument without consent. It is a destruction of everyone's heritage to remove archaeological evidence from any site without proper recording and reporting. Don't use metal detectors on historic sites without authorisation.

Please help me to make this as useful a resource as possible by contacting me if you see errors or if you can add information.
I do acknowledge the help I get with this site.

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

¤¤¤¤¤

Hinton House, Hinton St George

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is ST41801236

Sources of information, references and further reading