WALLS OF THE RUINED FORTALICE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1197566
Date first listed:: 11-Dec-1969
List Entry Name:: WALLS OF THE RUINED FORTALICE
Statutory Address:: WALLS OF THE RUINED FORTALICE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1197566
Date first listed:: 11-Dec-1969
Date of most recent amendment:: 23-Feb-1994
List Entry Name:: WALLS OF THE RUINED FORTALICE
Statutory Address 1:: WALLS OF THE RUINED FORTALICE

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:: WALLS OF THE RUINED FORTALICE

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

County:: Devon
District:: South Hams (District Authority)
Parish:: Dartmouth
National Grid Reference:: SX 88630 50277

Details

DARTMOUTH

SX8850 DARTMOUTH CASTLE 673-1/7/11 Walls of the ruined Fortalice 11/12/69 (Formerly Listed as: Dartmouth Castle)

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Ruined wall. Part of curtain wall from the original fortification on the site. Late C14, some C18 alterations. Local stone rubble. A section of ruined wall stands to south-west of the main castle complex with remains of a circular mural tower. Masonry includes regular series of putlog holes. The stone steps in the tower are thought to be from the C18 when it was adapted as a garden feature. Scheduled Ancient Monument. (Archaeologia: O'Neil BH St J: Dartmouth Castle and other defences of Dartmouth Haven: 1935-: P.129-157; Saunders AD: Dartmouth Castle, Devon: HMSO: 1986-).

Listing NGR: SX8862350276

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 387142
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Saunders, A D, Dartmouth Castle Devon, (1986)
'Archaeologia' in Archaeologia , (1935), 129-157

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.