Ravensworth Castle
RAVENSWORTH CASTLE, CROSS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1025190
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Ravensworth Castle
- Statutory Address:
- RAVENSWORTH CASTLE, CROSS LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1025190
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Ravensworth Castle
- Statutory Address 1:
- RAVENSWORTH CASTLE, CROSS LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- RAVENSWORTH CASTLE, CROSS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Gateshead (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Lamesley
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 23272 59118
Details
NZ 25 NW LAMESLEY CROSS LANE 11/63 (south side, off)
1.2.67 Ravensworth Castle
G.V. II*
2 eastern towers and fragments of curtain wall; dates given as C12 (Pevsner and Williamson); late C13 (Boyle); 1290 (Longstaff). C14 plan of 4 towers and curtain wall forming square enclosure with no keep; (compare Ford 1338, Chillingham 1344, Raby 1378) Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings. 3 storeys. Southern tower has elliptical-headed entrance in the north face, 4 lancet windows in west ground floor of late C13 type. North tower has mullioned and transomed window in first floor north face. Historical note: Ravensworth Castle was the property of the Fitz-Marmadukes; then in C14 and C15 of the Lumleys; then of the Gascoignes, from whom Thomas Liddell, a Newcastle merchant, bought it in 1607. It remained in the Liddell family until 1976. Sir Thomas Liddell, later Lord Ravensworth, demolished all but these towers of the house then standing. A scheduled ancient monument.
Listing NGR: NZ2327259118
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 303829
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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