GATE PIER AND APPROX 100 YARDS OF RETAINING WALL TO ROAD BELOW WILLSBRIDGE CASTLE

GATE PIER AND APPROX 100 YARDS OF RETAINING WALL TO ROAD BELOW WILLSBRIDGE CASTLE, BATH ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1319768
Date first listed:: 15-Jul-1981
List Entry Name:: GATE PIER AND APPROX 100 YARDS OF RETAINING WALL TO ROAD BELOW WILLSBRIDGE CASTLE
Statutory Address:: GATE PIER AND APPROX 100 YARDS OF RETAINING WALL TO ROAD BELOW WILLSBRIDGE CASTLE, BATH ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1319768
Date first listed:: 15-Jul-1981
List Entry Name:: GATE PIER AND APPROX 100 YARDS OF RETAINING WALL TO ROAD BELOW WILLSBRIDGE CASTLE
Statutory Address 1:: GATE PIER AND APPROX 100 YARDS OF RETAINING WALL TO ROAD BELOW WILLSBRIDGE CASTLE, BATH ROAD

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: GATE PIER AND APPROX 100 YARDS OF RETAINING WALL TO ROAD BELOW WILLSBRIDGE CASTLE, BATH ROAD

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

District:: South Gloucestershire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Hanham Abbots
National Grid Reference:: ST 66382 70668

Details

1. 5118 HANHAM ABBOTS BATH ROAD Willsbridge Gate pier and approximately 100 yds of retaining wall to road ST 67 SE 4/154 below Willsbridge Castle II GV 2. Mid to late C19. Massive wall about 100 yds long in pennant rubble supporting terrace to entrance front of Willsbridge Castle and returned to south-east with 25 yd crenellated section dying into hillside. Main section has irregular openings with railings (giving an unusual air of crenellation from below). Pier to road entrance to north-east end with corniced capping.

Listing NGR: ST6638170669

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 28673
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.