The Gatehouse website record for Kingsbury Hall

In the civil parish of Kingsbury. In the historic county of Warwickshire (Modern Authority of Warwickshire, 1974 county of Warwickshire).

Two lengths of C14 curtain wall about 1.7m thick and 6m high built of good coursed square masonry. The two lengths meet at a semi-octagonal tower about 2.5m wide across inner mouth. Adjoining W side of tower is a small turret containing garderobe. Traces of a second garderobe exist. The length of wall running N from the tower runs to the main gateway with a 3m wide archway, probably rebuilt, which appears to have had an external gatehouse. A pond to the N of the N wall may indicate a moat. Detailed information also exists on the history of the ownership of the manor of Kingsbury.
The title castle is appropriate because of the strong defensive nature of the site and the strength of the remaining structure. The walls are probably C13/early C14 and the tower and main gateway slightly later.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SP21399632

Sources of information, references and further reading

This site's English Heritage (PastScape) Defra or Monument number is 334271
This site's County Historic Environment Record (formerly Sites and Monuments Record) number is 4 '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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