Dunstall Castle
DUNSTALL CASTLE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1082583
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Dunstall Castle
- Statutory Address:
- DUNSTALL CASTLE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1082583
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Dunstall Castle
- Statutory Address 1:
- DUNSTALL 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:
- DUNSTALL CASTLE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Malvern Hills (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Earl's Croome
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 88562 42898
Details
SO 84 SE EARL'S CROOME DUNSTALL COMMON
3/45 Dunstall Castle
25.3.68
- II*
Folly ruin. c.1750-60, attributed to Sanderson Miller. Designed as an eyecatcher ruined castle for the 6th Earl of Coventry, of Croome Court. Blue lias random rubble. Central round tower with length of wall each side, canted back and terminated in a smaller tower. Central tower with arched lower opening, string course, blank arched panel above and ruined cap with machico- lation. Plank door with studding to lower opening. Western side has wall with shallow pitch gable springing from string course of tower and large ruined Gothic window, the sill broken open to ground level, single rebate to jambs and Bath stone cusping, like plate tracery to head. Wall terminated by a narrow square tower with blank arched opening, string course, blank square headed panel with keystone to top stage and another blank panel to East side of top stage. No rear wall. Eastern side has double wall with large neo- Norman round arch, dentilled string course at impost level and flat parapet, terminated by round tower with single blank panel below and paired arched panels to top stage, ruined machicolation. Within central tower a brick staircase tower with stone winding steps.
Listing NGR: SO8856242898
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 152550
- 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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