Stokesay Castle and Gatehouse Including Moat Retaining Walls
STOKESAY CASTLE AND GATEHOUSE INCLUDING MOAT RETAINING WALLS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1269939
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Stokesay Castle and Gatehouse Including Moat Retaining Walls
- Statutory Address:
- STOKESAY CASTLE AND GATEHOUSE INCLUDING MOAT RETAINING WALLS
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1269939
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Jun-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Stokesay Castle and Gatehouse Including Moat Retaining Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- STOKESAY CASTLE AND GATEHOUSE INCLUDING MOAT RETAINING WALLS
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:
- STOKESAY CASTLE AND GATEHOUSE INCLUDING MOAT RETAINING WALLS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Craven Arms
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 43561 81695
Details
CRAVEN ARMS
SO48SW STOKESAY 1943-1/5/126 Stokesay Castle and Gatehouse 12/11/54 including moat retaining walls (Formerly Listed as: STOKESAY STOKESAY Stokesay Castle and Gatehouse)
GV I
Manor house. c1391-1400; gatehouse added C17. Great Hall: sandstone rubble and timber-frame; stone tile roof; spurred brick ridge stack and paired ashlar ridge stack. Gatehouse: timber-frame and plaster on rubble base; stone tile roof with central gable to east; spurred brick ridge stack; stepped rubble exterior stack with C18 brick chimney to south side. PLAN: courtyard plan with gatehouse and bridge to east, enclosed by moat with rubble perimeter walls. EXTERIOR: Great Hall: with entrance and 3 mullion and transom 2-light windows under advanced gables; solar cross-wings with hipped roofs; jettied first floor with lattice-glazed mullion windows to north. Tower to south: polygonal; battlemented and embrasured parapet. Gatehouse: 2 storeys and attic; single-window range: 2-light lattice-glazed casement in altered opening, under stop-moulded bressumer; 3-light mullion casement to gable, over moulded bressumer. Central passageway, with studded door to rear, under enriched 4-centred arch between pilaster-moulded posts; flanked by 2-light casements, that to left in altered opening; C20 restored moulded bressumer separates post and panel framing from chevron-braced panels of first floor, with spurred quarter bracing to gable; richly carved and ornamented. Rear: similar, with central moulded mullion and transom oriel with lattice glazing; 2 studded plank doors; 3-light casement to right. INTERIOR: in house C17 panelling with carved overmantel; stop-moulded ceiling beams; fireplaces; squints; staircase. Gatehouse interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: SO4356281693
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 460272
- 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.
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