Ingarsby Old Hall

Has been described as a Possible Fortified Manor House

There are earthwork remains

NameIngarsby Old Hall
Alternative Names
Historic CountryLeicestershire
Modern AuthorityLeicestershire
1974 AuthorityLeicestershire
Civil ParishHungarton

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. (PastScape-listed building description)

The north, west and southern arms of a moat defining an area of approximately 150m square. The moat has an outer bank up to 1.5m high and is an average of 8-10m wide and 2m deep with the exception of a section of the northern arm which is up to 20m wide and 3m deep. Enclosed by the moat are some surviving grange buildings incorporated into Ingarsby Old Hall which is excluded from the scheduling. Earthworks on the eastern side of the moat show an extension of the northern arm and outer bank of the moat for 50m which then turns south, at which point a large outer mound adjoins the corner. The southward ditch continued but ceased to function as a moat but became stock enclosures. Some 50m to the east is an outer boundary bank running north-south. To the south-west of the moat is a large millpond lying alongside the stream and measuring 200m x 80m formed by damming the valley with a bank up to 2m high and building a bank alongside the stream and scarping on the eastern side of the pond. The manor of the Daungervills was granted to Leicester Abbey in 1352 with the remainder purchased by the mid C15. The millpond was constructed at the time of the original grant. (PastScape-scheduling report)

This site is a scheduled monument protected by law

This is a Grade 2* listed building protected by law

Historic England Scheduled Monument Number
Historic England Listed Building number(s)
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Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)
County Historic Environment Record
OS Map Grid ReferenceSK684053
Latitude52.6417808532715
Longitude-0.988820016384125
Eastings468400
Northings305300
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Books

  • Cantor, L., 1998, The Historic Country Houses of Leicestershire and Rutland (Leicester; Kairos Press)
  • Hoskins, W.G.(ed), 1954, VCH Leicestershire Vol. 2 p. 17 online transcription
  • Hoskins, W.G., 1946, The Heritage of Leicestershire
  • Wall, C., 1907, 'Ancient Earthworks' in Page, Wm, (ed), VCH Leicestershire Vol. 1 p. 213, 266-7 online copy
  • Nichols, J., 1800, The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicestershire Vol. 3.1 p. 291 online copy

Antiquarian

  • Chandler, John, 1993, John Leland's Itinerary: travels in Tudor England  (Sutton Publishing) p. 281
  • Toulmin-Smith, Lucy (ed), 1907, The itinerary of John Leland in or about the years 1535-1543 (London: Bell and Sons) Vol. 1 p. 20 online copy

Journals

  • Coulson, C., 1994, 'Freedom to Crenellate by Licence - An Historiographical Revision' Nottingham Medieval Studies Vol. 38 p. 117n92
  • Williams, Daniel, 1974-5, 'Fortified Manor Houses' Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society Vol. 50 p. 1-16 online copy
  • Winckley, S.T., 1909-10, 'Excursion to Houghton-on-the-Hill, Ingarsby, and Quenby' Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society Vol. 10 Part 5-6 p. 254-6 online copy