Remains of Castle on Castle Site
REMAINS OF CASTLE ON CASTLE SITE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1054569
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jul-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Remains of Castle on Castle Site
- Statutory Address:
- REMAINS OF CASTLE ON CASTLE SITE
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- Date:
- 2006-06-28
- Reference:
- IOE01/15515/15
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1054569
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jul-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Remains of Castle on Castle Site
- Statutory Address 1:
- REMAINS OF CASTLE ON CASTLE SITE
- Statutory Address 2:
- REMAINS OF CASTLE ON CASTLE SITE, BULL LANE
- Statutory Address 3:
- REMAINS OF CASTLE ON CASTLE SITE, BULL STREET
- Statutory Address 4:
- REMAINS OF CASTLE ON CASTLE SITE, CASTLE STREET
- Statutory Address 5:
- REMAINS OF CASTLE ON CASTLE SITE, MARKET SQUARE
- Statutory Address 6:
- REMAINS OF CASTLE ON CASTLE SITE, WELSH STREET
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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:
- REMAINS OF CASTLE ON CASTLE SITE
- Statutory Address:
- REMAINS OF CASTLE ON CASTLE SITE, BULL LANE
- Statutory Address:
- REMAINS OF CASTLE ON CASTLE SITE, BULL STREET
- Statutory Address:
- REMAINS OF CASTLE ON CASTLE SITE, CASTLE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- REMAINS OF CASTLE ON CASTLE SITE, MARKET SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- REMAINS OF CASTLE ON CASTLE SITE, WELSH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bishop's Castle
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 32303 89074
Details
SO 3288 and SO 3289
11/1, 12/1
BISHOP'S CASTLE C.P.
Remains of Castle on Castle Site
28.7.50
GV
II
Defensive walls. Castle founded circa 1100 for the Bishops of Hereford;
now no more than sundry walls standing between 20 and 3 feet high in
considerable earthworks. Coursed limestone rubble. Original plan:
petrified motte and bailey. Some of the masonry is thought to be C14,
and one C12 buttress is thought to be identifiable at NGR SO 32382
89048. Sections of the wall survive behind Nos. 10-20 (even), Market
Square (Nos. 10 and 20 not listed) and Nos. 2-8 (even), Welsh Street,
and behind Nos. 1-5 (odd), Bull Street (Nos. 3 and 5 not listed) and
bound the Public Park on the east side. The motte is encircled partly
by a rebuilt retaining wall incorporating stretches of mediaeval masonry.
Confusingly the best surviving section to the north-east is incorporated
in a wall which continues both to the north-west and south-east (neither
extension included). Other walls included in this item may well be of
medieval date, particularly the stretch between the south-east corner
of the motte and the middle of the bailey. The top of the motte has been
levelled to form a bowling green with a summerhouse (q.v.). In the
bailey various buildings, mostly of post-1700 date, demonstrate how,
at the end of the C17, the castle was allowed to decay.
Listing NGR: SO3230389074
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 256906
- 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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