Kinnersley Castle
KINNERSLEY CASTLE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1081683
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Kinnersley Castle
- Statutory Address:
- KINNERSLEY CASTLE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1081683
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Kinnersley Castle
- Statutory Address 1:
- KINNERSLEY CASTLE
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:
- KINNERSLEY CASTLE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kinnersley
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 34610 49616
Details
KINNERSLEY CP - SO 34 NW 3/50 Kinnersley Castle 20.2.53 GV II* House. Late C16 to early C17 with C18, mid-C19 and later alterations. Sandstone rubble and brick with sandstone dressings. Stone slate hipped roofs and brick stacks. L-plan with arms towards east and south and extension to west. Cellar and three storeys with five-storey tower. North elevation has 1:1:1 4-light windows with mullions and transoms beneath three crow-stepped gables. Windows of top storey have one transom, the rest two transoms. The central and right-hand gables are linked above their eaves by brickwork. Dark brick diapered patterns to gables. Moulded sandstone strings between storeys. Large stone pilaster to left corner and sandstone quoins to right corner. Five attached diagonal brick chimney shafts. Entry via mid-C19 embattled porch with oak strapwork to glazed double-leaved early C19 doors with linenfold lower panels. Attached to right is brick extension, possibly C18 with dormers and quatrefoil opening near junction with main range. South elevation presents a series of receding planes from left to right. Mullioned windows, stepped gable to left and embattled tower to centre. Attached to left is brick addition with three stone quatrefoils to first floor, brick plat band and later porch on three segmental arches to left. West elevation has four brick diapered gables linked by brickwork. Interior has entrance hall with early C17 oak panelling having narrow semi- circular headed arches forming a frieze to top panels. Five-flight closed well newel staircase has turned C17 oak balusters. At the top of the well is a table supported by similar balusters. Several rooms with elaborate C17 plastered ceilings, oak panelling and chimney-pieces, one with oak motifs. Mid-C18 fireplace, pedimented doorways and panelling in north-west ground floor-room. Roof has massive collar trusses with three pegs to each major joint. (BoE, p 212; RCHM, Vol III, p 98-90.
Listing NGR: SO3460549612
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 150419
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 98-90
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 212
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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