KILPECK CASTLE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1301419
Date first listed:: 20-May-1987
List Entry Name:: KILPECK CASTLE
Statutory Address:: KILPECK CASTLE

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Date:: 2002-02-14
Reference:: IOE01/06299/12
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1301419
Date first listed:: 20-May-1987
List Entry Name:: KILPECK CASTLE
Statutory Address 1:: KILPECK CASTLE

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:: KILPECK CASTLE

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

District:: County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Kilpeck
National Grid Reference:: SO 44412 30489

Details

KILPECK CP KILPECK SO 43 SW 2/39 Kilpeck Castle

GV II

Ruins of C12 keep with motte and bailey earthworks. Two sandstone rubble sections of walling remain to north and to south-west, the north fragment has the recess of a fireplace and there appears to be the recess of a circlar oven in the south-western fragment. The motte and bailey earth- works are not included in this list. Ancient Monument No 17). (RCHM, Vol I, p 158).

Listing NGR: SO4440230485

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Legacy System number:: 155573
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire I South West, (1931), 158

Legal

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