Site of Shrunken Med Manor House at Cestersover Far

Description of this historic site

The site of a manor house which dates to the Imperial period. The house may incorporate parts of an earlier manor house of Medieval date. It is situated 1km north west of Ryehill Spinney.

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Notes about this historic site

1 In January 1467 Sir Henry Waver was granted a licence to erect and crenellate walls and towers at Cesters Over.
2 Dugdale saw the manor house reduced to so mean a condition that it was only inhabitable by an ordinary farmer.
3 Cestersover House is of 18th century or 19th century brick. The lower part of the E wall is built of regularly coursed stone supposed to be part of the Medieval manor house, but it contains no datable features.
4 Scheduled as Warwickshire Monument No 109.
5 Scheduling Information.