Bladon Castle
BLADON CASTLE, NEWTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1096466
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Bladon Castle
- Statutory Address:
- BLADON CASTLE, NEWTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1096466
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Bladon Castle
- Statutory Address 1:
- BLADON CASTLE, NEWTON ROAD
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:
- BLADON CASTLE, NEWTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- South Derbyshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Newton Solney
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 26989 25079
Details
PARISH OF NEWTON SOLNEY NEWTON ROAD SK 22 NE 1/63 (East Side) 19-1-67 Bladon Castle II* Folly, partly converted into a house and now partly ruinous. Built as a folly 1795 by Jeffrey Wyattville for Abraham Hoskins, a solicitor of Burton-on-Trent. Half converted into a house 1801-2. Red brick. Irregular plan and elevations representing a picturesque castellated outline, but essentially symmetrical. Eleven bay west elevation. Three bay centre, divided by buttress strips. Full height canted bay window with 1-3-1 lights. Flanked by two tiers of lancet windows, one blocked, and with two small blind lancets above again. Three bays to left have taller buttressed centre bay. Two tiers of blind gothic windows. Similar arrangement of three bays to right, but with gothick glazing bar sashes and some later fenestration. Taller square towers at each end with two tiers of blind gothic windows. North elevation of five symmetrical bays. Centre bay as a gate tower with polygonal turrets rising well above the wings. Central pointed carriage arch. The end bays are set forward like square towers. Three tiers of blind lancets, the top ones little more than arches. Most of the north wall and the southern four bays of the west wall are only a facade. Castellated wall to south west enclosing the 'motte'. Castellated walled enclosure attached to north west, with a circular turret. The main block has an irregular east elevation with a five bay open Tudor arcade.
Listing NGR: SK2698925079
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 82869
- 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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