Monument record 0016301000 - Hitcham Manor House

Manor house was occupied as a school (B3) before demolition in 1804 (B4).
Remains of the old manor house consist entirely of walls of Tudor brick. The only contemporary buildings are an outbuilding, now occupied as a cottage, & the former stables, now restored & modernised internally (B7).
Illustration of old manor house in 1801 & description (B4).
The mansion house, long since demolished, stood NE of the church, but many of the walls which enclosed the kitchen gardens & formed part of the domestic offices still remain (B5).
Old manor house remains, chiefly consisting of walls built of C17 brick enclosing an extensive garden: those on W side have blocked openings & originally formed part of the house (B6).
Map of Hitcham, 1770, shows manor house (B9).




(SU 9212 8268) Manor House (NR) (remains of) (B14).

The remains of the Old Manor House at Hitcham about 200 yards NE of the church chiefly consist of walls of 17th c brick enclosing an extensive garden. Those on the W side have blocked openings and originally formed part of the house. (B6)

All that remains of the manor house are the N and W walls of Tudor brick containing blocked window apertures at SU 9214 8268, now incorporated in the walled garden of the present Hitcham House. A plaque set into the wall indicates the remains of "the old Hitcham House" which, it is stated, was demolished in 1804. The present owner Major Hambury has an 18th c print of the house.
A complex of waterfilled onds centred at SU 9224 8275 may have been fishponds, but more likely they were ornamental or used as water supply to the house and gardens.
Surveyed at 1:1250. (B15)