Killegrews, Margaretting (The Gatehouse Record)

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as;
Shenfields

In the civil parish of Margaretting.
In the historic county of Essex.
Modern Authority of Essex.
1974 county of Essex.
Medieval County of Essex.

OS Map Grid Reference: TL68850278
Latitude 51.69836° Longitude 0.44204°

Killegrews, Margaretting has been described as a probable Fortified Manor House.

There are masonry ruins/remnants remains.

This site is a scheduled monument protected by law.
This is a Grade 2* listed building protected by law*.

Description

Moated site of medieval date surrounding Killigrews House. The moat site includes a trapezoidal island which measures a maximum of 46m north-south and 48m east-west. The island is contained by a water-filled moat measuring up to 12m wide and at least 3m deep. The island is revetted with walls of early C16 brick, of which only a small section still stands to its original height of 2m. Octagonal brick turrets are built into the north west and south west corners of the walls and are also C16 in date. Both the walls and the corner turrets, which are Listed Grade 2-star, have loopholes set into them. The house and the moated site were originally known as Shenfields, after the messuage which was held by William de Shenvils in 1529, is thought to have been built in either the late C15 or early C16 by John Berdefeld. (PastScape)

Sources of information, references and further reading

National Heritage List for England Scheduled Monument Number 1016798, Legacy Scheduled Monument Number 33244
National Heritage List for England Listed Building number(s) 1152176
Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s) 375703.
County Historic Environment Record (or Sites and Monuments Record) number(s) 761.

Books
- Goodall, John, 2011, The English Castle 1066-1650 (Yale University Press) p. 459
  RCHME, 1921, An inventory of the historical monuments in Essex Vol. 2 (central and south-west) p. 185-6 no. 2 online transcription

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