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Slough Court, Stoke St Gregory

Has been described as a Possible Fortified Manor House

There are masonry ruins/remnants remains

Name	Slough Court, Stoke St Gregory
Alternative Names	Slough Farm
Historic Country	Somerset
Modern Authority	Somerset
1974 Authority	Somerset
Civil Parish	Stoke St Gregory

Late medieval fortified manor house, altered in the late C16 and altered and partly rebuilt in the mid C19. Built as an open hall house, now L-shaped in plan with a C19 porch. The remains of the medieval moat survive to the south of the house. A C16 gateway abuts the north west front, on the site of an earlier drawbridge over the moat. The gateway comprises a buttressed archway with low walls and is thought to represent an entrance through a curtain wall rather than the remains of a gatehouse. (PastScape)

Gateway and walls abutting, on north-west front of Slough Farmhouse (formerly listed as Gateway to Slough Court) Gateway and walls. Probably C16, altered C19, repaired mid C20. Random rubble local stone with Ham stone dressings and copings. Plan: buttressed archway with low walls along site of earlier drawbridge over moat, most still extant on south side. Gateway: semi-circular headed chamfered opening flanked by stepped buttresses with offsets, moulded cornice, entablature with panel bearing initials and coat of arms, thought to be C19, cornice and parapet above. Supported on east side by steel beam, pintels for gate hinges remain and short section of supporting wall. It is assumed that this was a gateway in a curtain wall, rather than the remains of a gatehouse. Wall with moulded coping returned to 2 square gatepiers and continued south for about 10 m. Much overgrown; it is probable that some of the earlier structure of the bridge over the moat survives beneath. (Listed Building Report)

Gatehouse Comments

Not listed within the usual gazetteers of medieval fortifications of Somerset (King 1983, Dunning 1995), but is recorded as a fortified manor house within PastScape. This is a moated manor house with a drawbridge although has a gateway rather than a, more defensive, gatehouse. This type of moated house is inconsistently called fortified depending on the whim of the describing author, rather than any set of verifiable criteria.

- Philip Davis

Not scheduled

This is a Grade 2 listed building protected by law

Historic England Scheduled Monument Number

Historic England Listed Building number(s)

1060241
1344637

Images Of England

271233

Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)

191916

County Historic Environment Record

www.somersetheritage.org.uk/record/43593

OS Map Grid Reference	ST348276
Latitude	51.0449905395508
Longitude	-2.93165993690491
Eastings	334800
Northings	127670