Remains of Castle, Hopton Castle
REMAINS OF CASTLE, HOPTON CASTLE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1054935
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Remains of Castle, Hopton Castle
- Statutory Address:
- REMAINS OF CASTLE, HOPTON CASTLE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1054935
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 28-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Remains of Castle, Hopton Castle
- Statutory Address 1:
- REMAINS OF CASTLE, HOPTON CASTLE
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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, HOPTON CASTLE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hopton Castle
- National Grid Reference:
- SO3668877933
Details
SO 37 NE
8/164
HOPTON CASTLE C.P.
HOPTON CASTLE,
Castle, remains of.
(Formerly listed as Hopton Castle)
1.12.51
I
Castle, remains of. Probably early C14 with later additions and alterations.
Regularly coursed shale (traces of former render surviving) with sandstone
ashlar dressings; now roofless. Only keep on roughly circular motte
survives; square plan with clasping buttress-like rectangular corner
turrets. 3 levels with moulded string course to ground floor carried
right around structure; roughly dressed angle quoins. North elevation:
recessed double-chamfered moulded pointed doorway with hoodmould and
outline of former gable above in angle with right turret, which has narrow
rectangular chamfered opening on first floor. Similar openings on both
ground and first floors to left turret. Corbelled projection above
doorway with chamfered stone cap has cusped lancet to centre, similar
lancet to left within larger infilled pointed opening. Chamfered rectangular
window to left of doorway with segmental relieving arch. West elevation:
narrow rectangular openings to turrets. Ruinous segmental-headed doorway
in angle with right turret has segmental-pointed window (mutilated) on
first floor to left. South elevation: narrow rectangular openings to
turrets and large opening to centre retaining fragments of moulding to
jambs; cusped lancet below extending through string course. Slight
rectangular projection in angle with left turret on first floor. East
elevation: narrow rectangular openings to turrets. Broad pointed opening
(mutilated) to left on first floor and square-headed opening with
moulded label in larger infilled opening to right. Rectangular opening
to ground floor on right has segmental relieving arch. Interior.
Inspection not possible at time of resurvey (September 1986) but right
turret on north elevation has spiral staircase. Extensive earthworks
on all sides, especially well-defined to west in what appears to be bailey.
Water-filled moats and several fragments of masonry visible beneath banks.
Scheduled Ancient Monument, County No. 23. B.o.E. p. 153; V.C.H. I. pp.
395-6; G.T. Clark, Medieval Military Architecture, II (1884), pp. 123-5;
Sir James Mackenzie, The Castles of England, II (1897), pp. 135-6.
Listing NGR: SO3668877933
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 257671
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Shropshire, (1908)
Clark, G T, Medieval Military Architecture in England, (1884), 123-5
Mackenzie, J, The Castles of England, (1897), 135-6
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958)
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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