Editing Ickleton (section)

====Caldress or Caldrees====
Before 1213 the Cistercian [[Calder Abbey]] in [[Cumberland]] had received land and half a [[watermill]] at Ickleton from [[Richard de Luci]].<ref name=VCH/> The estate came to be called Caldress Manor after the Abbey, which in 1279 held it of Thomas de Multon.<ref name=VCH/> This would seem to be the Thomas de Multon who was a descendant of [[Thomas de Multon, Lord|Thomas de Multon, Lord de Luci]], father of [[Thomas de Multon, 1st Baron Multon of Gilsland]] and died in 1287.

The present Caldress Manor house in Abbey Street may have 16th- or 17th-century origins.<ref name=EH-Caldress>{{NHLE |num= 1330958 |desc=Durham's Farmhouse |date=17 December 1896 |accessdate=1 September 2013}}</ref> It was added to in about 1800.<ref name=EH-Caldress/> Later in the 19th century the house was altered again for [[Robert Herbert]], first [[Premier of Queensland]], Australia, who was born in Ickleton.<ref name=EH-Caldress/> The original part of the house is timber-framed and the additions are brick.<ref name=EH-Caldress/>

[[File:Norman Hall - geograph.org.uk - 791812.jpg|thumb|Norman Hall, a 15th-century house with 16th-century and later alterations, became the seat of Brays manor until 1867]]