The Gatehouse website record for Cheylesmore Manor House

In the civil parish of Coventry. In the historic county of Warwickshire (Modern Authority of Coventry, 1974 county of West Midlands).

The manor of Cheylesmore was annexed to the Duchy of Cornwall in 1337 subject to the life interest of Queen Isabella, who held it until her death in 1385. It lay on the southern outskirts of Coventry, and had a valuable stone-quarry within its park. In 1385 Richard II gave the citizens permission to take stone to complete their city wall on condition that the site of the manor-house was enclosed within the circuit. Thereafter Cheylesmore had the character of a town-house where the king stayed when he visited the city. C16 gatehouse remains which incorporates earlier work, but main remnants of the manor house were demolished in 1956.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SP33377865

Sources of information, references and further reading

This site's English Heritage (PastScape) Defra or Monument number is 869469
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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.