The Castle, Forecourt Wall, Railings and Gate Piers
THE CASTLE, FORECOURT WALL, RAILINGS AND GATE PIERS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1058162
- Date first listed:
- 16-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Castle, Forecourt Wall, Railings and Gate Piers
- Statutory Address:
- THE CASTLE, FORECOURT WALL, RAILINGS AND GATE PIERS
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- Date:
- 1999-08-23
- Reference:
- IOE01/00138/13
- Rights:
- © Mr Robert O. Caudwell. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1058162
- Date first listed:
- 16-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Castle, Forecourt Wall, Railings and Gate Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE CASTLE, FORECOURT WALL, RAILINGS AND GATE PIERS
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:
- THE CASTLE, FORECOURT WALL, RAILINGS AND GATE PIERS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Buckland Dinham
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 76415 50007
Details
ST75SE BUCKLAND DINHAM CP
MURTRY 4/145 The Castle, forecourt wall, railings and gate piers 11.3.68
GV II
Estate house. Early C19. Coursed and squared rubble, cross gabled slate roof, coped verges with onion finials, group of 4 diagonally set ashlar stacks. Tudoresque. Two storeys, projecting gabled bay to front; casements with glazing bars in 2-light stone mullioned windows under stopped labels, trefoil head to each light; single light opening to each side of bay. Door opening in a 2 storey gabled wing to left side, 2-light stone mullioned window to first floor, below plank door in a moulded stone surround, semi-circular stone hood on cut stone brackets. Cast iron railings to forecourt with undulating heads on a low chamfered stone plinth; ashlar pier to each side with a pyramidal cap; coursed and squared rubble wall with a dressed coping extending 11 metres to each side.
Listing NGR: ST7641550007
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 267091
- 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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