Sham Castle
SHAM CASTLE, NORTH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1312449
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1956
- Statutory Address:
- SHAM CASTLE, NORTH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1312449
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1956
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHAM CASTLE, NORTH ROAD
Location
- Statutory Address:
- SHAM CASTLE, NORTH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bathampton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST7660764861
Details
ST 76 SE
3/40
1.2.56
BATHAMPTON C.P.
NORTH ROAD, OFF
Sham Castle
II*
Gothick folly. 1762. Built by Richard James, master mason for Ralph Allen "to
improve the prospect" from Allen's town house in Bath. Pevsner states that
Colvin suggests that it was probably designed by Sanderson Miller c.1755.
Coursed squared rubble. Battlemented. Screen wall with central pointed arch
flanked by two 3-storey circular turrets; extending sideways to 2-storey square
tower at each end of the wall. Blocked lancet windows; plain and cross-loop
openings. Plaque in centre. Pevsner N., Buildings of England : North Somerset
and Bristol; 1958.
Listing NGR: ST7660764861
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 32038
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (1958)
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