Clearwell Castle
CLEARWELL CASTLE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1186324
- Date first listed:
- 24-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Clearwell Castle
- Statutory Address:
- CLEARWELL CASTLE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1186324
- Date first listed:
- 24-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Clearwell Castle
- Statutory Address 1:
- CLEARWELL 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:
- CLEARWELL CASTLE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Forest of Dean (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Newland
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 57012 07746
Details
SO 50 NE NEWLAND CLEARWELL
8/74 Clearwell Castle
15.3.83 II*
Country house. Built 1727 by Roger Morris for Thomas Wyndham in Gothick style. Built of Forest stone which has survived a fire in 1929 and a period of ruin when the floors and roof were removed in 1948. The entrance front has a 2 storey central portion flanked by symmetrical 3 storey towers, all with embattlements alternately carved with the Wyndham lion. The towers have diagonal buttresses in the 2 lower stages. The windows have stone mullions and transoms, with pointed arched heads on the ground floor and elsewhere. The central doorway which opens directly into the great hall is approached up a double flight of steps with turned balusters, and has flanking clustered colonnettes. Here and all along the basement are attractive round windows. The house is built on a sloping site and the side elevations are irregular possibly owing to C19 additions in the same style. The library has a large bow window on the south which appears at one time to have been used as a chapel. At the opposite end leading into the hall, there are tall Ionic columnns in antis and this room like many others has a typical early C18 cornice, and a splendid stone fireplace with carved baroque overmantel. Some original fireplaces survive, the best is in the hall with carved hunting equipment in the frieze. The house was restored after the fire, and many of the ceilings are facsimile rather than original; there does not seems to have been any Gothic decoration inside, and the surviving fireplaces are more typical of the baroque phase of the early C18.
Listing NGR: SO5701207746
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 353753
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 16 Gloucestershire,
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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