CASTLE BOURNE WITH ATTACHED FOLLY AND ADJOINING WALL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1100143
Date first listed:: 23-Apr-1952
List Entry Name:: CASTLE BOURNE WITH ATTACHED FOLLY AND ADJOINING WALL
Statutory Address:: CASTLE BOURNE WITH ATTACHED FOLLY AND ADJOINING WALL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1100143
Date first listed:: 23-Apr-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 17-Jul-1986
List Entry Name:: CASTLE BOURNE WITH ATTACHED FOLLY AND ADJOINING WALL
Statutory Address 1:: CASTLE BOURNE WITH ATTACHED FOLLY AND ADJOINING WALL

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:: CASTLE BOURNE WITH ATTACHED FOLLY AND ADJOINING WALL

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County:: Worcestershire
District:: Bromsgrove (District Authority)
Parish:: Belbroughton
National Grid Reference:: SO 94395 76877

Details

SO 97 NW BELBROUGHTON CP BELL END

6/4 Castle Bourne with attached folly and 23.4.52 adjoining wall (formerly listed as Castle Bourne)

II

House with attached folly, now house, and adjoining wall. Late C18 folly with mid-C19 house and wall; further late C20 additions. Rendered brick with slate roofs behind embattled parapets. Main house: square two-bay plan with octagonal corner turrets forming chimneys with pointed-arched narrow panels decorating caps; single-bay south porch wing. Two storeys, basement and attic with dormers; strings at main storey levels which con- tinue around turrets. Gothick style. Main south elevation: two ground floor bay windows with moulded cornices; two first floor 4-light windows (lights have pointed heads) with cornices above interrupting upper string; between them is a blind circular opening with moulded surround; two gabled dormers with scalloped bargeboards and lancet windows. Porch wing has similar corner turrets and is of two storeys; south elevation has moulded flat canopy with embattled parapet on two octagonal columns, half-glazed double doors and a transom light with leaded glass; above is a first floor circular window with leaded glass and moulded surround. Right side of main house, in angle with porch wing, has a 3-light window with pointed lights on both floors. Interior: C19 moulded plaster ceilings in main rooms. Dog- leg staircase with large turned balusters. Poll : square three-bay plan, outer bays formed by large circular corner towers. Two storeys. South elevation: ground floor of towers has pointed windows (some blind) and first floor has quatrefoil windows and relief mouldings above in form of Maltese crosses. Central bay has blocked pointed doorway with hood mould and returns and a blind pointed first floor window. Wall: links main house to folly. About 20 yards long and 15 feet high with embattled parapet above moulded cornice. Central archway with 4-centred head flanked by pointed arch- ways; all have hood moulds with returns; the right archway has an inserted C20 half-glazed door leading to a rear addition. Large C20 addition to left side of house; single storey with four large 4-light windows and of similar design to main house. There is a similar folly about 150 yards south of Clent Grove, Clent CP (qv). (BoE, p 79).

Listing NGR: SO9439576877

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Legacy System number:: 156269
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 79

Legal

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