BASING HOUSE RUINS, INCLUDING THE OLD HOUSE AND THE NEW HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1092911
Date first listed:: 26-Apr-1957
List Entry Name:: BASING HOUSE RUINS, INCLUDING THE OLD HOUSE AND THE NEW HOUSE
Statutory Address:: BASING HOUSE RUINS, INCLUDING THE OLD HOUSE AND THE NEW HOUSE

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Date:: 2001-07-30
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1092911
Date first listed:: 26-Apr-1957
List Entry Name:: BASING HOUSE RUINS, INCLUDING THE OLD HOUSE AND THE NEW HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: BASING HOUSE RUINS, INCLUDING THE OLD HOUSE AND THE NEW HOUSE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BASING HOUSE RUINS, INCLUDING THE OLD HOUSE AND THE NEW HOUSE

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County:: Hampshire
District:: Basingstoke and Deane (District Authority)
Parish:: Old Basing and Lychpit
National Grid Reference:: SU 66236 52589

Details

SU 6652 OLD BASING BASING HOUSE 6653 22/66 26.4.57 Basing House Ruins, including the Old House and the New House

II

C12, C16. The site includes earthworks of a motte and bailey castle of Norman date, the motte being a large circular area for the accommodation of buildings, surrounded by a raised bank; to the south are outer defence mounds of the C17. After 1531, the motte was completely redeveloped as a large residence (the Old House), the top of the rampart on the outside having a brick wall and the inner side being lined with a series of structures, the central space having a large hall, courts, and other buildings. What survives is a complex of the lower parts of buildings, indicating cellars, kitchens with fireplaces, circular staircases all built of red brick in English bond, with several 4-centred chamfered arched openings. Only a short time later, the New House was built, mainly on the outside and to the north-east of the original castle, in the form of a series of rectangular structures around a central courtyard; what remains are brick footings and a large well, the canal development of the late C18 having cut away the outer parts. The footings of a large gateway mark the entrance to the Old House, the approach being a bridge across the ditch between the original motte and bailey, remaining as a painted brick arch. Throughout the area other base structures lie hidden, including a tunnel from the Keep under the moat, on the west side. This extensive fortified residence served as a strategic defence point during the Civil War, being held for the King in a famous siege which ended in the storming of Basing House by Cromwell in 1645. The area was later "slighted" and not rebuilt, its materials (mainly Tudor bricks) being re-used in the construction of many of the village houses. General protection is now given by the status of Ancient Monument, but the ancilliary structure with substantial survival are treated as separate items.

Listing NGR: SU6613352592

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Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.