Mow Cop Castle
MOW COP CASTLE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1162028
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Mow Cop Castle
- Statutory Address:
- MOW COP CASTLE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1162028
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Mow Cop Castle
- Statutory Address 1:
- MOW COP CASTLE, HIGH STREET
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:
- MOW COP CASTLE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Newcastle-under-Lyme (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kidsgrove
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Odd Rode
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ8574857352
Details
SJ 85 NE
8/83
6.6.52
ODD RODE C.P.
(Off) HIGH STREET
(MOW COP)
Mow Cop Castle
(formerly listed as Summer House on Mow Cop)
II
GV
Ruinous folly built as a summer house. 1754. By Randle Wilbraham.
Coursed sandstone rubble. Round tower to north with ground floor and
ruinous upper floor and arch and broken walling to south. Cheshire
front: round tower at left with two porthole windows to the ground
floor. Row of corbels above this and one pointed arch at left. To
right of the tower is a pointed arch and at right again a further
piece of ruinous walling with a low porthole window and half of a
blocked pointed arch. The Staffordshire side has a porthole window at
right of the round tower and a pointed arched doorway at left, a row
of corbels dividing the floors and two pointed arches to the first
floor with a corbel table below the parapet. Pointed arch to left of
this and rectangular surround to the sunken porthole window in the
walling at left. The round tower was originally less ruinous and had
Y-tracery to the pointed windows and a conical roof, and served as a
summer-house for the Wilbrahams and a neighbouring family of
Staffordshire landowners. In the late C18 the first meetings of the
Primitive Methodists were held below the castle. The castle was built
on the county boundary.
Listing NGR: SJ 85748 57352
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 56556
- 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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