Monument record 1396/3 - Possible site of medieval/post medieval Engaynes Manor

Fragmentary earthworks, with only one clear rectangular depression possibly the site of a building. May be merely house-sites although an old manor house is said to have stood here.

{1} SP 8616 7460: Manor House site or settlement remains on the south west side of a broad hollow way which is up to 1.5 metres deep. The existing earthworks are in a very fragmentary state and only one clear rectangular depression possibly the site of a building, is recognisable. They may be merely abandoned house-sites which were formerly part of Pytchley village but Bridges, writing about 1720, mentions that an old manor house, apparently that of the Engaynes, had stood 'in the Cow-pasture south of the Church' where wells, ponds etc. marked its position.." The earthworks may possibly be the site of the manor house.

<1> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1979, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.124-5 Site 10 (checked) (Series). SNN77380.

<2> Bridges J., 1791, The History and Antiquities of Northamptonshire, p.121 (unchecked) (Book). SNN77326.

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