Coleshill Manor

First building King Henry II granted the first Coleshill Manor to John de Clinton, elder, in 1284 or 1285 and claimed by prescription within the lordship of Coleshill, Assize of bread and ale, gallows, pillory, tumbrell and court leet, infangthef and utfangthef, a market, fair, and free warren. A survey of the building and its inventory was conducted in 1628, and a skirmish took place at Coleshill Manor during the Battle of Curdworth Bridge (English Civil War) in August 1642. The third house was constructed in 1873 and was initially the seat of the Wingfield-Digby family. It was then in use as a hospital between 1929 and 2010. Today it is an office complex. == Excavation ==

During the construction of the High Speed 2 railway, the site of the first Coleshill Manor was identified and excavated between 2020 and 2023. Among the discoveries included the ruins of the gatehouse and around forty musket balls fired at the building during the Battle of Curdworth Bridge. == Description ==

The first house was a large moated building with a drawbridge and it had a garden comparable in size to the surviving example at Kenilworth Castle. It had two angular towers towards the front of the building and the moat was octagonal. It was roughly 10 metres (33 ft) by 10 metres (33 ft) in size and was built using ashlar masonry. == References ==