The Gatehouse website record for Binbury Castle, Thurnham

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Thornham; Bonbury; Stocking Wood

In the civil parish of Thurnham. In the historic county of Kent (Modern Authority of Kent, 1974 county of Kent).

Binbury Castle comprises a fine motte which retains the majority of its enclosing ditch. The bailey is no longer traceable except on the NE side where, on the line of the curtain wall at the point where the bailey joined the ditch of the motte, there is a mural tower, the remains of a mediaeval manor-house . This is oblong on plan measuring 4.5m x 3.3m internally, and stands to a height of about 7.5m; its walls of knapped flint with ragstone quoins are 1.9m thick. It is heavily buttressed on its NE face and altered elsewhere by the insertion of brick chimneys and various building additions. The remains of the curtain wall are visible on its SW wall and are traceable as footings for the fewm NW from there to the edge of the ditch. The site lies within the boundary of a disused airfield and although the barns are still in use the farmhouse proper - Binbury Manor - has been demolished.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is TQ81156023

Sources of information, references and further reading

This site's English Heritage (PastScape) Defra or Monument number is 418603
This site's County Historic Environment Record (formerly Sites and Monuments Record) number is TQ 86 SW 2 '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.