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Holditch Court Tower is a fortified medieval tower house located in Dorset, England. The structure dates from the late medieval period and represents a form of domestic fortification typical of the English countryside during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The tower exemplifies the architectural preferences of the period, when landowners of considerable means constructed such towers to combine residential accommodation with defensive capability. The monument remains a significant example of medieval secular architecture in the county and is protected as a scheduled ancient monument and listed building under the statutory heritage designation system.
Holditch Court Tower is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1002835. View the official record →
Holditch Court Tower is a fortified medieval tower house located in Dorset, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1002835.
Holditch Court Tower is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1002835.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Lambert's Castle: an Iron Age hillfort 425m west of Nash Farm, with a bowl barrow, and the sites of a post-medieval fair and a telegraph station (4.1 km), Small multivallate hillfort with outworks called Coney's Castle (5.4 km), Roman fort and later Romano-British settlement at Woodbury Farm (6.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Holditch Court Tower'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.
Holditch Court Tower stands on Lias Group, bedrock that formed in the Aalenian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, limestone and sandstone.