Okehampton Castle
OKEHAMPTON CASTLE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1165647
- Date first listed:
- 07-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Okehampton Castle
- Statutory Address:
- OKEHAMPTON CASTLE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1165647
- Date first listed:
- 07-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Okehampton Castle
- Statutory Address 1:
- OKEHAMPTON CASTLE
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:
- OKEHAMPTON CASTLE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Okehampton Hamlets
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 58342 94249
Details
OKEHAMPTON HAMLETS SX 59 SE
9/103 Okehampton Castle -
- I
Castle. The oldest fabric dates from the C11 with some evidence of C13, much rebuilt and extended in early C14. Constructed of a mixture of granite, metamorphic rocks and shale. The earliest structure is the C11 keep standing on its motte, there is some evidence of C13 buildings in the main bailey but most of the surviving structure dates from an early C14 rebuild and extension of the site when the keep was also enlarged. Dating from this time is the hall, the kitchen range, a chapel and priests accommodation, extensive lodgings, a main gatehouse and a barbican gatehouse. Further minor additions were made in the late C14 and C15 and the late C17. The structure is now ruinous with the extant remains varying in their degree of survival but the external fabric is in places relatively complete. The motte and keep are to the south-west with the bailey buildings ranging down the valley to the north east. The castle is first mentioned in 1086 in Domesday Book when it was the centre of the estates of Baldwin de Brionne who was Sheriff of Devon. In 1173 the castle passed into the hands of the Courtenay family who held it until 1509. This castle holds a strategic point at the head of the valley and as such has great landscape value. From the extensive survival of the buildings a reconstruction of the early C14 layout is possible and it is one of the more complete castle sites in Devon. Source: H.M.S.O. Offical Handbook - R. A. Higham Ancient Monument No
Listing NGR: SX5835594271
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 94344
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Higham, R A, The Castles of Medieval Devon, (1979)
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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