Monument record EYE 012 - Cranley Hall

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Summary

Scheduled Monument - Moat (partly filled in) - Cranley Hall (inhabited moat).

Location

Grid reference Centred TM 1521 7278 (164m by 153m)
Map sheet TM17SE
Civil Parish EYE, MID SUFFOLK, SUFFOLK

Map

Type and Period (7)

Full Description

Moat (partly filled in) - Cranley hall (inhabited moat).
Dagger, 3 horseshoes, millstone, C15 pottery (R1)(R2).
Moat shown on a C20 tracing of a map of 1626 as being only slightly more extensive than it is now. Small formal garden shown on one side of the house and a dovecote on the other, on the edge of the moat - only the timber-framed house survives of this group. Courtyard group of four farm buildings (3 of which still survive: stable, barn & ?malthouse) shown adjacent to the moat on the N side. Hall sold by Henry Grey to Myles Edgar shortly before 1626 - remained in the occupation of the Edgar family until 1705 (S1)(S2). Site mapped again in 1726 for Charles, Lord Cornwallis (S3).
March 2001: scheduled (S4)

Sources/Archives (7)

  • <S1> (No record type): Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich, HD 78: 2671 Eye.
  • <R1> Index: Ipswich Museum. IPSMG card. IPSMG, card 963-58, 1963.
  • <M1> Unpublished document: Suffolk Archaeological Service. Parish Files. Parish file: tracing of part of (S3).
  • <R2> Index: Ipswich Museum. IPSMG card. IPSMG, card 969-55, 1969.
  • <S2> (No record type): Easton T & Martin E, Cranley Hall, PSIA 37 pt 4, 1992, 395-8 (figs).
  • <S3> (No record type): Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich, HA68/484/753.
  • <S4> Scheduling record: English Heritage. Scheduled Ancient Monument file.

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Record last edited

Mar 5 2015 3:11PM

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