BOLESWORTH CASTLE

BOLESWORTH CASTLE, BOLESWORTH LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1278804
Date first listed:: 04-Jan-1984
List Entry Name:: BOLESWORTH CASTLE
Statutory Address:: BOLESWORTH CASTLE, BOLESWORTH LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1278804
Date first listed:: 04-Jan-1984
Date of most recent amendment:: 19-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:: BOLESWORTH CASTLE
Statutory Address 1:: BOLESWORTH CASTLE, BOLESWORTH LANE

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: BOLESWORTH CASTLE, BOLESWORTH LANE

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

District:: Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Broxton
National Grid Reference:: SJ 49503 55988

Details

SJ 45 NE BROXTON C.P. BOLESWORTH LANE

5/16 Bolesworth Castle

4/1/1984 (formerly listed under GV II* Bolesworth Castle Park)

Castellated house 1829, by William Cole (his principal work) for G.Walmesley, the interior partly reworked by Clough Williams Ellis for G.Barbour in 1920-3. Ashlar sandstone. 2 storeys with turretted centrepiece of 3 storeys. Plinth, band at 1st floor, battlements. Wide canted 2-storey bays at centre and right end; round bay at left, beyond which is single-storey wing ending in an octagonal 2-storey turret. 3 windows in each projecting bay, 2 between. Cross casements (bars removed from lower storey and some from upper) under labels. Clough Williams Ellis partly classicized the right end (not visible from front) with round-headed French windows to lower storey and balustrade in place of battlements. A Gothic archway over the rear drive links the house to the sandstone cliff behind. Interior: 3 front rooms, with Gothick doorways and plaster ceilings are substantially William Cole's (some details damaged). Behind them is a central open-well stair with cantilevered stone steps, iron balusters and mahogany rail and round-arched openings to corridors upstairs; a small circular glazed dome over. Right of the stair is Clough Williams Ellis's galleried classical hall with pilasters, frieze, oval ceiling panel and statue of Diana with hound, in niche. 6-panel doors in shoulder-arched openings with panelled reveals.

Listing NGR: SJ4950355988

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 404734
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.