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Eastington Manor House is a medieval manor house located in Wales and scheduled as an ancient monument under Cadw reference PE263. The building sits upon Upper Devonian bedrock comprising interbedded sandstone and conglomerate, laid down in the Late Devonian period approximately 360 million years ago. This solid geological foundation of mixed sedimentary rocks would have provided a stable base for the manor's construction and explains the character of local building stone available to medieval builders in the area.
The manor house represents the domestic architecture of the medieval gentry or minor nobility, whose estates formed the backbone of Welsh territorial organisation during the Middle Ages. Such residences typically combined residential, administrative and defensive functions, serving as the focal point of manorial estates and local authority. The survival of the structure, now under Cadw's protection, provides evidence of medieval settlement patterns and building practices in Wales.
The site's location on undifferentiated Upper Devonian rocks reflects the underlying geology of this region of Wales, where these ancient sedimentary deposits outcrop extensively. Understanding the geological setting of the manor contributes to wider knowledge of medieval land use and settlement distribution, as medieval communities necessarily adapted their building and subsistence strategies to local stone availability and terrain.
Eastington Manor House is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference PE263. View the official record →
Eastington Manor House is a medieval manor house located in Wales and scheduled as an ancient monument under Cadw reference PE263.
Eastington Manor House dates from the medieval period, and is classified as a manor. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Eastington Manor House is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Cadw — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Wales. The official designation reference is PE263.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Brownslade Round Barrow (5.3 km), Linney Tobruk Shelters (5.7 km), Linney Head Tumulus (5.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Eastington Manor House's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Eastington Manor House stands on Upper Devonian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Late Devonian. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.