Gatehouse Classification - Fortified Manor House
Has been described as a Possible
There are no visible remains
About 70 yards east of Standalone farmhouse and 20 chains north-east of Tursdale shafts, Steavenson found indications of building foundations below ploughed land. In 1907, he had it dug and found big flat stones round a considerable area, forming portions of an oblong building of probably early date ...I should say it has been a pele... The foundations were 50 yards square Gatehouse CommentsNothing now visible at this site, which has been extensively ploughed. However the quality of the stones found here in the past suggested a fortification to earlier writers and the possible moat reported may well be suggestive of a medieval defensible site. However the isolated site may well suggest a pele tower of a farmstead rather than a tower house of a knightly or lordly residence. However, PastScape quotes Surtees as writing 'Eustace De Bailliol, demorant a Querundon, is in a list of knights present at the Battle of Lewes 1264' Quarrington is two miles west of this site but before the construction of several mining and quarrying villages may have been the closest medieval settlement.
This site is a scheduled monument protected by law
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