Castle Barn, Flanking Dovecotes and Screen Walls
CASTLE BARN, FLANKING DOVECOTES AND SCREEN WALLS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1129344
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1983
- Statutory Address:
- CASTLE BARN, FLANKING DOVECOTES AND SCREEN WALLS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1129344
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1983
- Statutory Address 1:
- CASTLE BARN, FLANKING DOVECOTES AND SCREEN WALLS
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CASTLE BARN, FLANKING DOVECOTES AND SCREEN WALLS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- South Gloucestershire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Badminton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 79284 82702
Details
BADMINTON C.P. THE TYNING ST 78 SE
6/89 Castle Barn, - flanking Dovecotes and Screen Walls
II*
Barn, dovecotes and screen walls. Circa 1750 by Thomas Wright of Durham (the north inner pier of the east has the date "1748" inscribed). Rubble with freestone dressings and quoins; double Roman tiled roof. Castellated Gothic in a symmetrical range of buildings. Flanking outer walls, 25 yards to either side of main building: 2 storey screen walls with embattled parapets, 2 loop windows; the west wall serves as the gable wall of a 2 storey, 2 window C20 house; the east wall still screens a ruinous outbuilding. The main building begins with 2 outer dovecote towers: square, 3 stages with embattled parapets; 2 blocked loop windows on ground floor, blocked segmental headed windows on first floor; cill band and open segmental windows to upper stage; large segmental headed carriage entries to rear; brick nesting boxes inside. Screen walls with 2 cross loop and 2 loop windows join the towers to 2 storey turrets: semi- circular on plan with blocked loop and segmental headed windows. In the centre is the gable end of the barn: blocked north door under depressed ogee head, loop windows to either side; blocked quatrefoil in crow stepped gable. East and west gabled porches, both with trefoil heads to the carriage entries : slit vents to west side; blocked semi-circular headed windows to east side. Interior: 9 bays, king post roof, dated "1839": roof to east porch dated 18PP (?1899). A very important example of Thomas Wright's castellated Gothic buildings and one of his most important works for the 4th Duke of Beaufort in the period 1748-1756. Harris, E. Country Life. 9.IX.71.
Listing NGR: ST7928482702
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 34302
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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