Elsyng Palace

Elsyng was first scheduled on 6 April 1967 and the scheduling was amended on 30 March 2015; a scheduled monument carries no grade. Historic England's summary calls it 'A multi-phase complex monument with medieval origins, later converted to an early Tudor courtier house belonging to Sir Thomas Lovell which was then taken over and adapted as a royal palace by Henry VIII', and the designation cites its 'Historic significance: as a royal residence belonging to Henry VIII and the childhood residence of King Edward VI and Queen Elizabeth I'. The earliest known reference to Elsyng dates from 1374; Thomas Lovell gained custody of the estate in 1492 and built a royal suite that Henry VII used on two visits, in 1497 and 1498, and the estate was exchanged with Henry VIII in 1539. The scheduling covers the buried remains of the manor and palace, its ponds, ridge and furrow, terraces of a possible former garden and part of the Turkey Brook.