Remains of Huntington Castle
REMAINS OF HUNTINGTON CASTLE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1157544
- Date first listed:
- 16-Oct-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Remains of Huntington Castle
- Statutory Address:
- REMAINS OF HUNTINGTON CASTLE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1157544
- Date first listed:
- 16-Oct-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Remains of Huntington Castle
- Statutory Address 1:
- REMAINS OF HUNTINGTON CASTLE
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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:
- REMAINS OF HUNTINGTON CASTLE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Huntington
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 24839 53804
Details
HUNTINGTON CP HUNTINGTON SO 25 SW 1/110 Remains of Huntington Castle 16.10.67 - II
Castle remains. C13, or earlier origins, repaired in 1403, abandoned in 1460 (although one tower still in use as prison in 1521). Sandstone rubble. Earthworks consist of a motte 40 yards in diameter and three feet high with an oval inner bailey to the north-east and a crescent-shaped outer bailey also to the north-east. The inner bailey is approached by a causeway on the east side which probably marks the site of a former gate- house. The bailey was enclosed by a curtain wall; one fragment of this wall survives to the west about 20 feet high. Also part of a C13 tower remains to the north with a small chamber in the adjoining section of curtain wall. This chamber has traces of a window and two small recesses in the west wall. In the south part of the tower are the remains of a stair- case or corridor. The castle was in the possession of the Braose, Bohun and Stafford families during the Middle Ages. Ancient Monument County no 98. (RCHM, III, p 75-6, item 2; BoE, p 198).
Listing NGR: SO2483953804
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 150665
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 75-6
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 198
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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