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Kenchester Court Farm

Has been described as a Questionable Timber Castle (Motte), and also as a Questionable Fortified Manor House

There are cropmark/slight earthwork remains

Name	Kenchester Court Farm
Alternative Names
Historic Country	Herefordshire
Modern Authority	Herefordshire
1974 Authority	Hereford and Worcester
Civil Parish	Kenchester

A large hollow and an embankment has been suggested as representing a motte and bailey castle. Court Farm is of seventeenth-century date. (Shoesmith)

Members of the archaeology section of the Woolhope Club noticed a large hollow (former moat?) and embankment (possible bailey?). Did Court Farm once possess some sort of defence? (Herefordshire SMR)

Gatehouse Comments

Site of DMV of which church still exists and some house platforms survive east of the church. Certainly a location similar to that of many small castles and the fairly extensive extensions and outbuildings to Kenchester Court Farm could well have destroyed much earthworks. The 'Court' name of the farm and its location is highly suggestive of this being the medieval manorial centre but the evidence for fortification of the medieval precursor of Court Farm is fairly weak and there are rather numerous alternative explanations for a hollow and 'bank'. Historical research on the tenurial history of the site could be enlightening.

- 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)

1296588

Images Of England

154242

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

(DMV)
108115

County Historic Environment Record

htt.herefordshire.gov.uk/her-search/monuments-search/search/monument?smr_no=33744

OS Map Grid Reference	SO433432
Latitude	52.0847587585449
Longitude	-2.82768988609314
Eastings	343300
Northings	243200