Carn Brea Castle
CARN BREA CASTLE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1160284
- Date first listed:
- 09-Apr-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Carn Brea Castle
- Statutory Address:
- CARN BREA CASTLE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1160284
- Date first listed:
- 09-Apr-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Carn Brea Castle
- Statutory Address 1:
- CARN BREA 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:
- CARN BREA CASTLE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Carn Brea
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 68633 40869
Details
CARN BREA SW 64 SE 5/121 Carn Brea Castle 9.4.75 GV II
Hunting lodge or folly, now restaurant. Built by the Basset family of Tehidy, mostly in C18 and C19, but incorporating some fabric believed to be medieval. Uncoursed granite rubble with granite dressings, all on a very irregular foundation of natural outcropping granite and boulders at the summit of the hill. Irregular plan with 4 rectangular turrets round a core of the same height. Gothick style, with mostly 2-centred arched openings and an embattled parapet. Mostly 2 storeys; the entrance front on the south side has a narrow set-back centre between 2 turrets, with a doorway to the right, a small window to the left, and a window above the door; the right-hand turret has a raised square- headed doorway in the re-entrant wall, a small square window above, and an arched window at 1st floor of the front wall; the narrower left turret has 2 similar windows at 1st floor of the outer wall. To the rear of this a pile of massive boulders forms the "ground floor" of the north-west turret, which is perilously perched on it and has one small square-headed lancet at a high level in each of its 3 sides, and flat coping with a chimney on the west side. To the rear (i.e. north side) of this boulder outcrop a long flight of steps leads to a doorway in the narrow re-entrant of the north-east turret, and the rear wall of the core, which is exposed here, has a depressed 2-centred arch at the same level, and some larger masonry which may be of earlier origin; the north side of the north-east turret has 2 windows at (raised) ground floor and a small lancet above, and the east side has a similar lancet at the upper level and a chimney pipe rising from one upstand of the battlements. Interior not inspected. With Dunstanville Memorial to west (q.v.), a very prominent landmark.
Listing NGR: SW6863340869
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 66669
- 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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