Licence to crenellate granted to John Grey of Rotherfield in 1346 and repeated in 1348. Not in PastScape, no obvious site for manor house on 1st edition OS map, now a built up part of the city of Kingston upon Hull. Map reference given is for site of parish church, which I presume this presumably fortified manor was close to.It stood on the river bank in the 17th century but had disappeared by the 1780s. From about 1312 until 1330 Robert de Moreby, who had married the widow of John de Grey the elder, shared the lordship of the manor with John de Grey the younger. In 1376 Robert de Grey granted the manor to John de Neville. (VCH)16 years after getting sole possession suggests the licence to crenellate was not about confirming ownership. Possibly money from the french wars allowed the funding of a new building (John was involved in the Crecy expedition) although, I suspect, little building took place before the Black Death in 1349 and that this was never much of a residential manor for the de Grey's which made it's disposal, in the more financially difficult 1370's, fairly easy.

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Name	Sculcoates
Alternative Names	Sculcotes
Historic County	Yorkshire East Riding
Civil Parish	Kingston upon Hull
Type	Fortified Manor House
Confidence	Possible
Remains	Nothing visible
Listed	Not listed
Scheduled Ancient Monument	No
Ordnance Survey Reference	TA097307
Eastings	509700
Northing	430700
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Books

• Emery, Anthony, 1996, Greater Medieval Houses Vol1 (Cambridge) p421
• Allison, K.J. (ed), 1969, VCH York East Riding Vol1 p467-9 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66795
• Turner, T.H. and Parker, J.H., 1859, Some account of Domestic Architecture in England (Oxford) Vol3 pt2 p415

Primary Sources

• Calendar of Patent Rolls (1345-48) p514
• Calendar of Patent Rolls (1348-50) p36