The Gatehouse website record for Walworth Castle

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Walworth Hall; High Walworth

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

Walworth manor was described in 1466 as including, "one chief messuage with divers outhouses." The present mansion is said to have been built in the reign of Elizabeth upon the ruins of the earlier house. Walworth Castle was built on the ruins of a previous castle by Thomas Jennison, who had purchased the estate in the reign of Elizabeth. As planned, it occupied three sides of a quadrangle - the front has now been blocked by a line of building between the wings. It is a stone-built mansion of three storeys, with near-circular flanking towers to the southwest and southeast. The earliest structure appears to be the southwest tower and a portion of the south wall adjoining it. This tower contains six blocked-up openings, including two keyhole-shaped windows at ground level, and may be of Medieval date.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is NZ23101886

Sources of information, references and further reading

This site's English Heritage (PastScape) Defra or Monument number is 539240
This site's County Historic Environment Record (formerly Sites and Monuments Record) number is D1565 '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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*The listed building may not be the actual medieval building, but a building on the site of, or incorporating fragments of, the described site.