The Gatehouse website record for Low Dinsdale Manor House

In the civil parish of Low Dinsdale. In the historic county of Durham; County Palatinate of (Modern Authority of Darlington, 1974 county of County Durham).

The manor house of Dinsdale is mentioned in 1537. The present house is basically Georgian, now much modernised. It stands within a moated complex with an inner moat and outer "bailey", the whole being enclosed by an outer bank. A series of lesser earthworks divide the enclosed area into rectilinear plots. Excavations in 1878 revealed a gatehouse of late C12 date, with traces of vaulting and a newel stair. This appears from photographs to have been east of the house, though a painting of 1716 shows a gatehouse to the southeast. The Manor House stands inside a double-moated enclosure and was the home of the Surtees family from the early C12 until the C19.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is NZ34611100

Sources of information, references and further reading

This site's English Heritage (PastScape) Defra or Monument number is 25718
This site's County Historic Environment Record (formerly Sites and Monuments Record) number is D183 '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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