The Gatehouse website record for Muggleswick Grange

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Mugleswick; Priory Farm; Hunting Lodge

In the civil parish of Muggleswick. In the historic county of Durham; County Palatinate of (Modern Authority of Durham, 1974 county of County Durham).

Remains of monastic grange at Priory Farm. Built between 1258 and 1272 on what is thought to be site of earlier grange. In 1464 site consisted of a hall, chapel, grange and dairy, the latter in poor state of repair. Visible remains consist of 2 rectangular blocks. Eastern block stands to complete height of 15.5m at eastern gable, which has corbelled turrets, but is elsewhere much lower (average surviving height of N wall is 0.7m). Western block survives to 4m at western gable but is not visible on surface elsewhere although foundations are thought to survive underground. This building had an undercroft that was at least partly removed in C19. The building was originally scheduled as a hunting lodge and listed as a manor house. It's certainly finer in quality than most farmhouses and may well represent the Priors Hunting lodge. Does not seem to be particually fortified and Salter may have included this in his gazetteer of fortified buildings merely for it’s architectual interest.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is NZ04435003

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This site's English Heritage (PastScape) Defra or Monument number is 20352
This site's County Historic Environment Record (formerly Sites and Monuments Record) number is D11831 'grey' literature, such as watching brief reports, held by H.E.R.s is often poorly referenced and is unlikely to be recorded in this website.

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*The listed building may not be the actual medieval building, but a building on the site of, or incorporating fragments of, the described site.