Remains of a fortified manor house once in the possession of the de Cantelupe family, for which Nicholas de Cantelupe obtained a licence to crenelate in 1339. The only remains above ground are built into farm buildings, include square headed decorated window and a pointed door arch. Excavations in 1933 suggested that the house was surrounded by a curtain wall with round towers at each corner. (3)
The "castle" is surrounded by extensive earthworks: a rectangular rampart and ditch surrounding the "castle" and degenerating with the rising ground into a ditch alone, and partly obliterated by the modern road ... Remains of the moat of the manor house, running from the NW to the NE corners of the present farm buildings. (4)
A large rectangular enclosure of bank and ditch at one time extending on its NW side into the churchyard. This has been filled within the St Marys burial area, but clearly extends S to turn SE to include 8 rectangular fishponds, before turning NE to the present major highway. The earthworks are clearly of several phases and incorporate the rectangular moated and walled moat site. These central features are probably earlier with an extension of earthworks to the W and S-SE. The SW area contains straight ridge and furrow which runs downhill, NE-SW. The dairy pasture includes the base of a rounded tower … (contd, but unintelligible). (5)
Detailed site description - see parish file. (6)
Remains of castle. c.1341. (7)
Courtyard of brick-built farm-buildings that reuse early medieval stone elements. Farm building include stable (loose boxes and stalls), barns, milking barn and cart shed. Stable Block: 'Possibly extended or re‐built during the C19, hand‐made brick and retains evidence of a former tack room at ground floor level with protruding wooden pegs. Another ground floor room retains concrete stalls.' (11)
See M8287 for fish ponds, M2334 for church, M2391 for deserted village.
Grid ref centred.

Data Held (Document). SNT2647.

OS card, Parish File

Data Held: Aerial Photograph (Aerial photograph). SNT2645.

CUCAP PR43

Listed buildings slides, (Photograph). SNT2648.

<1> VCH, 1906, Notts, p 311 (Published document). SNT1383.

<2> Thoroton Society, 1955, TTS, pp 98-9 (Published document). SNT369.

<3> Thoroton Society, 1934, TTS, pp 34-53 (Published document). SNT352.

<4> DOE, AM7 - undated, no author (Unpublished document). SNT52.

<5> Hart CR, 1984, AM107 (Unpublished document). SNT754.

<6> Woodhouse WC, 1959, Pers Comm (Personal comment). SNT1437.

<7> CUCAP, Air photos (Aerial photograph). SNT594.

Other Refs: PR43

<8> Thoroton Society, 1995, TTS, p 70-1 (Published document). SNT1525.

<9> Thoroton Society, 1907, TTS, p 41 (Published document). SNT334.

<10> Pevsner N, 1979, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire 2nd ed., p 135 (Monograph). SNT4.

<11> Archaeological Research Sevices, 2019, Greasley Castle Farm Assessment Report (Unpublished document). SNT5248.