The Gatehouse website record for Great Chalfield Manor

In the civil parish of Atworth. In the historic county of Wiltshire (Modern Authority of Wiltshire, 1974 county of Wiltshire).

The manor house of Great Chalfield was built c.1480 on the site of a ruined fortified house. The base of the east and north curtain walls and the lower parts of the north-east and western towers are all that survive of the earlier house. There were considerable alterations c.1550. By 1840 a quadrangle of domestic offices had been demolished others parts were in ruins and the house had been adapated as a farmhouse. The structure was restored, including some rebuilding, between 1905-12. There is a moat with bridge and gateway. (PastScape–ref. VCH)
Site of an earlier fortified house of a branch of the Percy family

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is ST86026318

Sources of information, references and further reading

This site's English Heritage (PastScape) Defra or Monument number is 208088
This site's County Historic Environment Record (formerly Sites and Monuments Record) number is ST86SE530 '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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