Ickenham Manor Farm (The Gatehouse Record)

In the civil parish of Hillingdon.
In the historic county of London and Middlesex.
Modern Authority of London Borough of Hillingdon.
1974 county of Greater London.
Medieval County of Middlesex.

OS Map Grid Reference: TQ08278528
Latitude 51.55644° Longitude -0.43935°

Ickenham Manor Farm has been described as a Timber Castle although is doubtful that it was such, and also as a Fortified Manor House but is rejected as such.

There are earthwork remains.

This site is a scheduled monument protected by law.
This is a Grade 1 listed building protected by law*.

Description

Greater London SMR record of medieval motte. This is a moated manor site but no other suggesting of motte here.

At Manor Farm a narrow moat takes a somewhat eccentric plan, and is evidently the work of two periods. The earlier moat was quadrangular with the N. side joining the W. at an acute angle. At some later date the E. extremity of the northern trench appears to have been extended, while the E. side of the moat - about 120 ft from the S.E. angle was also turned eastwards in a line parallel to the northern extension; a fragment of the original moat remaining between them. (PastScape)

We have separate records for the motte and the moat at Ickenham Manor Farm. Our position for the moat record is slightly to the west in the position that the surviving section of the moat is shown on historic and modern OS mapping (motte position marked as under house). The evidence for our record appears to come from a personal communication from the West London Archaeological Field Group, relating information from excavations in the 1960s for a flint-built motte, but I'm afraid that I haven't been able to find out any more details of this work. We have the WLAFG card catalogue, but I can find no mention of the motte on the cards either. I checked the Ruislip Manor Farm record to see if the two had been confused, but there is no mention of WLAFG work being carried out there in the 1960s. (Krystyna Truscoe, 2011)

Sources of information, references and further reading

National Heritage List for England Scheduled Monument Number 1002006, Legacy Scheduled Monument Number lo75
National Heritage List for England Listed Building number(s) 1080187
Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s) 394952.
County Historic Environment Record (or Sites and Monuments Record) number(s) 05049901.

Books
- RCHME, 1937, An inventory of the historical monuments in Middlesex (HMSO) p. 84 no. 3 online transcription
  Page, Wm (ed), 1911, 'Ancient earthworks' VCH Middlesex Vol. 2 p. 6
Other sources: Theses; 'grey' literature; in-house reports; unpublished works; etc.
- Historic England, 2016, Heritage at Risk London Register 2016 (London: Historic England) p. 57 online copy
  Historic England, 2015, Heritage at Risk London Register 2015 (London: Historic England) p. 57 online copy
  English Heritage, 2014, Heritage at Risk Register 2014 London (London: English Heritage) p. 58 online copy
  English Heritage, 2013, Heritage at Risk Register 2013 London (London: English Heritage) p. 59 online copy
  English Heritage, 2012, Heritage at Risk Register 2012 London (London: English Heritage) p. 66 online copy
  pers. corr, 31 Jan 2011, Krystyna Truscoe, Greater London Historic Environment Record Officer, Greater London Archaeology Advisory Service
  English Heritage, 2011, Heritage at Risk Register 2011 London (London: English Heritage) p. 65 online copy
  English Heritage, 2010, Heritage at Risk Register 2010 London (London: English Heritage) p. 65 online copy
  English Heritage, 2009, Heritage at Risk Register 2009 London (London: English Heritage) p. 70 online copy

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