The Castle Inn

The Castle Inn, Edgehill

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1024196
Date first listed:: 07-Jan-1952
List Entry Name:: The Castle Inn
Statutory Address:: The Castle Inn, Edgehill

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Date:: 2002-08-29
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1024196
Date first listed:: 07-Jan-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 08-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:: The Castle Inn
Statutory Address 1:: The Castle Inn, Edgehill

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: The Castle Inn, Edgehill

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Warwickshire
District:: Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
Parish:: Radway
National Grid Reference:: SP 37370 47425

Details

SP34NE 3/80 RADWAY EDGEHILL The Castle Inn

(Formerly listed as Edge Hill Tower)

07/01/52

GV II* Shown on O.S. map as Edgehill Tower. Ornamental sham castle, now public house. c.1746-1747, with mid/late C19 additions. Designed by Sanderson Miller for himself. Ironstone ashlar. Roof of tower not visible; C19 additions have hipped tile roofs and brick lateral and ridge stacks.

Octagonal tower, with C19 wing to left and rear additions.Castellated Gothick style. Five storeys to front, six to rear due to steeply sloping site. Single storey addition to front has shallow gable, moulded cornice and solid stone roof. Pointed arched doorway with C20 door. First floor has cinqfoil window. Second floor has corbels formerly supporting bridge to gateway (q.v.), now a separate structure. Ogee arched doorway set in round arch, with shield above; C20 plank door. Lancets, moulded four-centred lancets with glazing bars and two-light windows with Y-tracery. Right return side has blind quatrefoil on ground floor. To rear canted sides have blind cross-slits on first floor. Machicolated battlements. C19 wing. Two storeys, three-window range. Entrance on right has pointed arch and plank door. Double-chamfered lancet above two-light windows with plate tracery of lancets and blind quatrefoil in outer chamfered order. Crenellated parapet. Left return side has one-window range with similar tracery, three-light on ground floor. Further two-window range set back as arched doorway and lancets.

Interior: ground floor unaltered. Second floor of tower noted as having octagonal room with Gothick plaster decoration.

The Castle was part of Miller's work on his Radway Grange property, including the erection of Egge Cottage (q.v.), with which it forms a group.

Listing NGR: SP3737047425

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Legacy System number:: 306191
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W , The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1949), 142
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 380

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.