Castle Acre Castle
CASTLE ACRE CASTLE, PYE'S LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1171480
- Date first listed:
- 13-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Castle Acre Castle
- Statutory Address:
- CASTLE ACRE CASTLE, PYE'S LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1171480
- Date first listed:
- 13-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Castle Acre Castle
- Statutory Address 1:
- CASTLE ACRE CASTLE, PYE'S LANE
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:
- CASTLE ACRE CASTLE, PYE'S LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Castle Acre
- National Grid Reference:
- TF8188515170
Details
TF 8115
11/12
CASTLE ACRE
PYE'S LANE (south side)
Castle Acre Castle
I
Castle containing earlier unfortified house. C11 house converted into
keep mid C12, outer ward c.1200 and C13. Flint and clunch rubble, some stone
dressings. Roofless. Built by the first de Warrene Earls of Surrey (obit 1087)
father of founder of Castle Acre Priory (q.v.), extinct in heirs male 1147.
Abandoned in C14. Post-Conquest country house or domus defensabilis possibly
a two-storey hall, converted into rectangular keep early to mid C12 excavated
1972-1977. Curtain wall in place of former wooden palisade, clasping buttress
piers survive on exterior west and north side. Lower wall fortified c.1200,
with surviving sections of wall at east and south. To west base of south
abutment of gateway of C13, possibly contemporary with north Bailey Gate
(q.v.) of Castle Acre. Formerly thought to be a motte and bailey castle of
one build of late C11. Scheduled Ancient monument County Number 140. See J.G.
Coad and A.D.F. Streeten "Excavations at Castle Acre, Castle Acre, Norfolk
1972-1977 : Country house and castle of the Norman Earls of Surrey" Archaeo-
logical Journal CXXXIX (1982), pp. 138-301. In care of HBMC.
Listing NGR: TF8188515170
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 221880
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Archaeolgical Journal in Archaeolgical Journal, Vol. 139, (1982), 138 301
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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