Remains Of Marshwood Castle, 50 Metres West Of Lodge House Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1951. Castle.
Remains Of Marshwood Castle, 50 Metres West Of Lodge House Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- steep-buttress-mallow
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 December 1951
- Type
- Castle
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SY 49 NW MARSHWOOD POORHOUSE LANE 6/25 Remains of Marshwood Castle, 50 metres west of Lodge House Farmhouse 4.12.51 GV II* Remains of Angle Tower, Marshwood Castle. Stone rubble walls with mortared core standing up to 10 feet in places. Plan: 3 1/2 sides of an angle tower, 40 feet x 29 feet, in the south-west angle of an originally moated enclosure. Facing-stones of walls do not survive. Walls originally from 6 ft to 10 ft thick. Head of the Honour and Barony of the Norman Mandeville family. Only head of a Barony in Dorset. Perhaps identifiable with Wootton Fitzpaine in Domesday Book. Mandevilles became Earls of Essex, 5 Stephen. Became extinct 2 Richard I. Sources: Hutchins II, p. 260. Victoria County History III, p. 126n; R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p. 156(1). Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Listing NGR: SY4045897698
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