PERIMETER WALLS OF LAUNCESTON CASTLE

PERIMETER WALLS OF LAUNCESTON CASTLE, CASTLE DYKE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1187246
Date first listed:: 07-Jun-1993
List Entry Name:: PERIMETER WALLS OF LAUNCESTON CASTLE
Statutory Address:: PERIMETER WALLS OF LAUNCESTON CASTLE, CASTLE DYKE

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Date:: 2001-09-23
Reference:: IOE01/05130/15
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1187246
Date first listed:: 07-Jun-1993
List Entry Name:: PERIMETER WALLS OF LAUNCESTON CASTLE
Statutory Address 1:: PERIMETER WALLS OF LAUNCESTON CASTLE, CASTLE DYKE
Statutory Address 2:: PERIMETER WALLS OF LAUNCESTON CASTLE, ST THOMAS ROAD
Statutory Address 3:: PERIMETER WALLS OF LAUNCESTON CASTLE, WESTERN ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: PERIMETER WALLS OF LAUNCESTON CASTLE, CASTLE DYKE
Statutory Address:: PERIMETER WALLS OF LAUNCESTON CASTLE, ST THOMAS ROAD
Statutory Address:: PERIMETER WALLS OF LAUNCESTON CASTLE, WESTERN ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Launceston
National Grid Reference:: SX3305484512

Details

LAUNCESTON

SX32843384 WESTERN ROAD 660-1/4/190 Perimeter walls of Launceston Castle

GV II

Perimeter walls of Castle. c1840, incorporating some medieval fragments. For the Duke of Northumberland. Slatestone rubble walls with local greenstone, volcanic stone and polyphant stone dressings. Roadside retaining walls to St Thomas Road, Western Road and Castle Dyke with some Gothic style features, some of which are probably re-used from the Watch of Witches Tower which collapsed when the road was being built. High walls with doorways inserted at various intervals. These walls are part of a major landscaping scheme which took place following criticism about the condition of the castle in 1840.

Listing NGR: SX3305484512

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Legacy System number:: 370142
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.