Outer Bailey Walls and Attached Farmbuildings
OUTER BAILEY WALLS AND ATTACHED FARMBUILDINGS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1044803
- Date first listed:
- 24-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Outer Bailey Walls and Attached Farmbuildings
- Statutory Address:
- OUTER BAILEY WALLS AND ATTACHED FARMBUILDINGS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1044803
- Date first listed:
- 24-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Outer Bailey Walls and Attached Farmbuildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- OUTER BAILEY WALLS AND ATTACHED FARMBUILDINGS
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:
- OUTER BAILEY WALLS AND ATTACHED FARMBUILDINGS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Corbridge
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 00108 66291
Details
CORBRIDGE AYDON NZ 0066 19/98 Aydon Castle. Outer bailey walls and attached farmbuildings
GV I
Curtain wall with towers, and later farmbuildings. C14, farmbuildings early C19. Rubble with dressings; stone slate roofs. Irregular pentagonal enclosure. South curtain west of main block has chamfered C17 doorway and remains of 4 C14 windows each of 2 shoulder-arched lights. North end of west curtain canted forward with blocked shoulder-arched postern. North-west curtain has segmental- headed gateway and corbelled-out garderobes on either side of projecting rectangular tower. D-shaped tower at north angle reduced to barrel-vaulted lower stage, with pointed-arched doorway to bailey. North-east and east curtains much reduced.
Farmbuilding adjacent to inner face of west curtain 2 storeys, 3 wide bays. Boarded doors between bays, varied fenestration in old openings. North end built against ruined C14 wall, with gap representing former gateway, which links to north-west range of main buildings (q.v.). Former cartshed, adjacent to north-east curtain 1 storey, 6 bays. Square stone piers with chamfered caps carrying timber lintels; pent roof. Contemporary pent privy adjacent to west end.
Listing NGR: NZ0010866291
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 239859
- 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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