Dilham Castle, also called Dilham Hall, is situated in the village of

Dilham Dilham is a village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the England, English county of Norfolk. The village is located 4.3 miles south-east of North Walsham and 12 miles north-east of Norwich, and is situated on the River Ant. Histo ...

, near

Stalham Stalham is a market town and civil parish on the River Ant in the English county of Norfolk, in East Anglia. It covers an area of and had a population of 2,951 in 1,333 households at the 2001 census, the population increasing to 3,149 at the 20 ...

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Dilham Castle was built in the 15th century by Sir Henry Inglose, probably around the same time as nearby

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. Inglose had served in France under

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and was a client of Sir John Falstof, who later became a

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. Inglose married Anne de Gyney, a member of a prominent Dilham family. The castle took the form of a fortified

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and probably originally included two pentagonal towers, possibly forming a gateway, and an external wall, made of

flint Flint, occasionally flintstone, is a sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as the variety of chert that occurs in chalk or marly limestone. Flint was widely used historically to make stone tools and start fir ...

stone and brick.Dilham Hall
". ''National Monuments Record''.

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. Accessed 8 September 2011. By 1904, only one of the towers and part of the wall remained, with the surviving tower having been restored using more modern brick and cement. Today the remains lie within Hall Farm and are a grade II

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and are a

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. In 2009 the condition of the site was regarded as poor by

, due to the damage to the tower from vegetation.
Heritage at Risk Register 2009
', p.56. English Heritage. Accessed 8 September 2011.

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