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Type. Fortified manor house. Site information. Condition. Earthworks only remain, with parts of the later 16-17th century building. Site history. Built by. John Pateshull. Bletsoe Castle was a late medieval fortified manor house in the village of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, England.
List entry 1114219. Grade II* Listed Building: Bletsoe Castle. May include summary, reasons for designation and history.
Coordinates: 52.2130°N 0.5052°W. Bletsoe is a village and civil parish in Bedfordshire, England. It is on the A6, and about eight miles north of Bedford. The village has a small park, the former site of Bletsoe Castle and a church. Nearby places are Sharnbrook, Milton Ernest, Riseley, Thurleigh, Odell, Souldrop, and Swineshead.
Source: Historic England. Source ID: 1114219. English Heritage Legacy ID: 36822. ID on this website: 101114219. Location: Bletsoe, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK44. County: Bedford. Civil Parish: Bletsoe. Traditional County: Bedfordshire. Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Bedfordshire. Church of England Parish: Bletsoe.
Bletsoe Castle was listed by the former Ministry of Works in 1952 as Grade II* and they identified a late 16th century mansion, reduced from three to two storeys in the 19th century and...
Bletsoe is a civil parish in Bedford, Bedfordshire, England. It contains 23 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, two are listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade.
Bletsoe Castle is a medieval moated manor house with associated 16th-17th century garden enclosure and landscape earthworks. The moat itself is almost square in plan and is partly surrounded by a waterfilled ditch measuring up to 25m wide by 3.5m deep with an outer bank 2m high and 5m wide.
