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Description: | The site of the magnate's residence and manorial centre of Steeton Hall. Steeton Hall is a complex building the core of which dates to the 14th century. The 14th century building is thought to have been much larger than the fragment surviving today and buried remains indicating the full extent and nature of this medieval building will survive beneath and adjacent to the later additions. The latter are mainly 17th and 19th century in date. Steeton Hall stood at the centre of a complex of domestic and agricultural structures lying within a large precinct which was defined by a wall. A gatehouse providing access into the precinct still stands and is Listed Grade I. Within the precinct was a smaller inner enclosure which contained the hall itself and the immediate domestic buildings. In the outer precinct a range of buildings associated with the wider agricultural and economic functions of the manorial centre would have been located. In the north western section of the precinct are a series of stone revetted garden terraces. The precinct wall survives as a low bank extending eastward from the gatehouse, turning south for 110 metres then westward for 270 metres then northwards towards a stream. In some places stone footings for the wall are visible along the bank and in one place east of the gatehouse 3 courses of stonework survive above ground level. Further building platforms survive as slight earthwork features whilst in the north east corner of the monument there are the remains of a now dry fishpond. The gatehouse dates to circa 1360 and is a two storey rectangular structure with a central archway and a small side passage. The top of the gatehouse is crenellated and decorated with gargoyles and coats of arms and crests carved onto stone shields. | Subjects: | Manor House Building Religious Ritual And Funerary Domestic Garden Terrace Gatehouse Gardens Parks And Urban Spaces Agriculture And Subsistence Fishpond Manorial Chapel House Water Supply And Drainage Precinct Wall | Source: | English Heritage - Viewfinder | Creator: | National Monuments Record | Identifier: | http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk... | Language: | en | Go to resource |
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