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