Farleigh Castle
Farleigh Castle, Farleigh Hungerford
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1058120
- Date first listed:
- 16-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Farleigh Castle
- Statutory Address:
- Farleigh Castle, Farleigh Hungerford
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1058120
- Date first listed:
- 16-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Farleigh Castle
- Statutory Address 1:
- Farleigh Castle, Farleigh Hungerford
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:
- Farleigh Castle, Farleigh Hungerford
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Norton St. Philip
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 79781 56924
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 01/06/2020
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NORTON ST. PHILIP CP
FARLEIGH HUNGERFORD
Farleigh Castle
GV
II
Country house, now school. Circa 1806, remodelled c1895. Ashlar Doulting stone with slate and lead roofs, octagonal ashlar chimney stacks and turrets. Tudor Gothic style. Two, three and four-storeys, buttresses, weathered string courses, moulded cornices, carved stone heraldic achievements and crests, panelled parapets and gargoyles, battlements and towers.
Entrance elevation faces east, three storey with five windows. Left to right a) angular, three-light stone mullion and transom bay window with quartrefoiled parapet, then blocked window with stopped drip mould, string course, heraldic device, b) set between full height buttresses, in three stages with cross gabled copings and crocketted finials, a four-centred moulded arch to main entrance, then angular bay; with heraldic device three-light, mullion and twice transomed window quatrefoils with shields to spandrel, mullion and transom window, gargoyles and quatrefoil, coped parapet, moulded string course and parapet, c) four-light, mullion and transomed windows with stopped dripmoulds to ground and first floor, four-light, mullion window to second floor, d) and e) two-light mullion and transom windows with stopped dripmoulds to ground and first floor, two- light mullion window to second floor, c), d) and e) with moulded string course, coped and embattled parapet over.
The south elevation faces onto formal garden and is generally similar, seven windows two, four and three-storeys, corner buttresses, tower with octagonal stair turret, angular bay to window e) to the left; a diagonally set single storey pavilion, probably early C19, steps to central entrance under semi circular moulded arch with patera over, between diagonal two-stage buttresses, crocketted finials, coped pediment, embattled wing walls. Interior; entrance hall, through full height of building with oak panelling to ground floor, staircase rises between pair of square, Tuscan columns, with moulded cornice and three-light round headed stone mullioned window, with stained glass and glazed lantern light over.
Listing NGR: ST7978156924
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 267191
- 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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