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

Dilham Dilham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is located south-east of North Walsham and north-east of Norwich, along the course of the River Ant. History Dilham's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and d ...

, near Stalham in

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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

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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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