Gatehouse, stables and flanking walls at Banwell Castle
Banwell Castle, Castle Hill, Banwell, BS29 6NX
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1320658
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Gatehouse, stables and flanking walls at Banwell Castle
- Statutory Address:
- Banwell Castle, Castle Hill, Banwell, BS29 6NX
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1320658
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Gatehouse, stables and flanking walls at Banwell Castle
- Statutory Address 1:
- Banwell Castle, Castle Hill, Banwell, BS29 6NX
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Banwell Castle, Castle Hill, Banwell, BS29 6NX
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Banwell
- National Grid Reference:
- ST4011258688
Details
ST 45 NW
5/10
BANWELL
CASTLE HILL (south side)
Gatehouse, stables and flanking walls at Banwell Castle
9.2.61
GV
II*
Gatehouse, stables and flanking walls. Circa 1848. Rubble, freestone dressings. Chamfered double arch below parapet between circular embattled towers decorated with cross loops, that to left has ground floor slit windows; cast iron gates with heraldic motifs; from within arch, flights of steps rise into each tower through chamfered, round headed openings; to right a heavily embattled wall curves round to the tower on the west wall (q.v.); to left a larger, two storey embattled drum tower single light windows adjoins a hexagonal turret with a capping small circular turret; to left of this, an embattled wall pierced by round headed lancets for stables up to a buttress, plain thereafter the wall runs on to the dairy (q.v.); behind wall to left of gatehouse are plain lean-to altered stables.
Listing NGR: ST4011258688
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 33348
- 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.
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