The Gatehouse website record for Ewhurst Manor, Shermanbury

In the civil parish of Shermanbury. In the historic county of Sussex (Modern Authority of West Sussex, 1974 county of West Sussex).

Thomas Peverel built a moated manor house here in the reign of Edward I. The moat remains but of the building itself the only survival is the Gateway with the porter's lodge attached to it. Early C14. Built of stone and consists of a carriage arch flanked by buttresses with a room over surmounted by gable containing a cross-shaped loop window. The roof of the archway is of brick with ribbed stone vaulting. Behind the gateway is the porter's lodge which forms a T-shaped building with it of lower elevation. These walls are of stone rubble with a tiled roof timbered beneath. The portion on the west has a trefoil-headed lancet. The portion on each side has an old door connecting with centre, complete with its original bolt. The house now on the site is part of a C16 house, originally of larger dimensions.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is TQ211190

Sources of information, references and further reading

This site's English Heritage (PastScape) Defra or Monument number is 399006
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