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

Dilham

Dilham is a village and civil parish covering an area of with a population of 301 in 128 homes as of the 2001 census. It is on the River Ant just of the A149 road, near Stalham in Norfolk, England within The Broads...

, near Stalham

Stalham

Stalham is a market town 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 as of the 2001 census. It lies within the Norfolk Broads, about north-east of Norwich on the A149 road.For the purposes of local...

 in Norfolk

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, England

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

Caister Castle

Caister Castle is a 15th-century moated castle situated in the parish of West Caister, some north of the town of Great Yarmouth in the English county of Norfolk ....

. Inglose had served in France under Henry V

Henry V of England

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 and was a client of Sir John Falstof, who later became a knight of the Garter. Inglose married Anne de Gyney, a member of a prominent Dilham family. The castle took the form of a fortified manor house

Manor house

A manor house is a country house that historically formed the administrative centre of a manor, the lowest unit of territorial organisation in the feudal system in Europe. The term is applied to country houses that belonged to the gentry and other grand stately homes...

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

Flint

Flint is a hard, sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as a variety of chert. It occurs chiefly as nodules and masses in sedimentary rocks, such as chalks and limestones. Inside the nodule, flint is usually dark grey, black, green, white, or brown in colour, and...

 stone and brick.

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 listed building and are a scheduled monument. As of 2009 the condition of the site was regarded as poor by English Heritage

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, due to the damage to the tower from vegetation.