The Gatehouse website record for Riccall Manor

In the civil parish of Riccall. In the historic county of Yorkshire East Riding (Modern Authority of North Yorkshire, 1974 county of North Yorkshire).

The buried and earthwork remains of a medieval moated site for a prebendary manor house belonging to York Minster. Upon the island there is a Grade 2* Listed Building that incorporates substantial remains of a late medieval brick built manor house. The manor of Riccall was held by the Archbishop of York from before the Domesday Survey. The prebendal manor house was in existence by 1294, when it was first documented and a licence to crenellate was granted in 1350. The oldest part of the existing house is a brick built three storey tower with a five stage turret dated to circa 1480. The moated island is 60m by 80m. It is rhomboid in plan with the western side being 90m long, and the eastern side 70m. The upstanding late medieval building is sited centrally on the western side of the island. The encircling moat ditch is broad and deep, typically 20m wide and was originally at least 2m deep.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SE615380

Sources of information, references and further reading

This site's English Heritage (PastScape) Defra or Monument number is 58023
This site's County Historic Environment Record (formerly Sites and Monuments Record) number is MNY12072 '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.