[TQ 8852 4788] Coldbridge Farm on site of (NAT) Castle (NR) (1) Colebridge Castle is mentioned in 1314 and 1363 when licences to crenellate were granted. There is a tradition that hewn stone and other materials from Colebridge Castle were used to build Boughton Place (TQ 84 NE 3 - built 1559-78) and it seems probable that the castle was demolished about this date. (A history of the manor is given) There are the remains of extensive moats. The inner moat is well- defined but it is apparent that the outer moat extended sufficiently to form a second defence on all sides (See AO/61/330/2) (2)(3) Coldbridge Castle was evidently a fortified manor house. Some early stone-work survives in the lower courses of the present 18-19th c. farmhouse and covered foundations are said to exist in the garden to the south. The earthworks comprise a homestead moat and various additional features, including a fishpond and what appears to be an extensive paddock to the SSW. There is no evidence that the `Outer Moat' ever existed on the S. and E. sides and it was probably only a stream diversion and boundary bank on the lower side of the site. Published 25" survey revised. (4) Additional bibliography. (5-12)

Description from record TQ 84 NE 44:
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
BOUGHTON MALHERBE COLDBRIDGE LANE. TQ 84 NE (South side) Egerton
6/4 Coldbridge Farmhouse
II
Fragment of castle, now farmhouse. Built by Fulk de Peyforer after 1314. C19 facade. Small block stone, roughly coursed to south elevation, evenly coursed to west, with C19 red brick dressings. Right side of south elevation tile hung on first floor. Plain tile roof. L-plan. South Elevation: 2 storeys. on stone plinth. Flat eaves soffits. Hipped roof with gablets, left (west) hip returning. Gable end stacks. Irregular fenestration of three 2-light casements. Half-glazed central door in C20 half-glazed block porch. West return elevation: cills and lower part of chamfered stone jambs of 2 first-floor windows of a taller, truncated, building, visible immediately under eaves, one towards north end and one towards south. Ashlar jambs of intermediate ground-floor opening towards south end. Interior not inspected. Doubly moated site; inner moat rectangular, outer triangular. (J. Newman, B.O.E. Series, West Kent and the Weald, 1980 edition). Listing NGR: TQ8699847840 (13)

<1> OS 6" 1961 (OS Card Reference). SKE48369.

<2> Memorials of Old Kent 1907 182-5 (Ed P H Ditchfield) (OS Card Reference). SKE46883.

<3> VCH 1 1908 429 (OS Card Reference). SKE50796.

<4> F1 ASP 02.01.64 (OS Card Reference). SKE41880.

<5> Moated Sites Research Group 6 1979 (Ed C J Bond) 46 (OS Card Reference). SKE47302.

<6> Arch Cant 93 1977 220 (T Tatton-Brown) (OS Card Reference). SKE36141.

<7> Castles of Eng 1 1897 9 (J D Mackenzie) (OS Card Reference). SKE38628.

<8> Castellarium Anglicanum 1 1983 229 (D J Cathcart King) (OS Card Reference). SKE38604.

<9> Some Kentish Castles 1907 (P H Ditchfield & G Clinch) 150-214 (H Sands) (OS Card Reference). SKE49505.

<10> Bldgs of Eng-West Kent & the Weald 1980 175 (OS Card Reference). SKE38139.

<11> History of Kent 1799 433-4 (E Hasted) (OS Card Reference). SKE44102.

<12> Field report for monument TQ 84 NE 1 - January, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE4341.

<13> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.