CURTAIN WALL AND TOWERS AT WALTON CASTLE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1320707
Date first listed:: 22-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:: CURTAIN WALL AND TOWERS AT WALTON CASTLE
Statutory Address:: CURTAIN WALL AND TOWERS AT WALTON CASTLE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1320707
Date first listed:: 22-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:: CURTAIN WALL AND TOWERS AT WALTON CASTLE
Statutory Address 1:: CURTAIN WALL AND TOWERS AT WALTON 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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Location

Statutory Address:: CURTAIN WALL AND TOWERS AT WALTON CASTLE

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District:: North Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Clevedon
National Grid Reference:: ST 41565 72886

Details

Clevedon 2. ST 47 SW WALTON CASTLE 2/10 Curtain wall and towers at Walton Castle. II GV Curtain wall with towers. 1615-20 for Lord Poulett, much reconstructed and modified in late C20. Rubble, asphalt flat roofs. Octagonal circuit, with eight circular towers connected by straight walls; entrance to north through Large elliptical opening with late C20 plank doors. Towers 1 and 8, flanking entrance, have single lights and are crenellated, towers 2-7 inclusive have 2-light openings; nos. 4,5, and 6 have crenellations. The joining straight curtain walls have been raised c 1m. between towers 3 and 4, 4 and 5, and 7 and 8. The south front, between towers 4 and 5, contains a large late C20 glazed 3-door opening giving access to underground swimming pool, and to the left of the opening a small structure in concrete block for air-conditioning unit; this to be clad in stone, but exposed at time of survey (May 1987). Between towers 7 and 8 there is a second internal wall, and the space is roofed. In the courtyard facing the keep (q.v.) is a series of 4 centred door openings to moulded surrounds that to tower 5 appears to be of the C17 and to towers 6 and 7 rebuilt using some original stones. Otherwise much of the work is of late C20 oak, based on the original ruins of the circuit and towers. Interiors of the towers transformed in C20 work. A swimming pool lies under the courtyard, south of the keep.

Listing NGR: ST4156572886

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Legacy System number:: 33171
Legacy System:: LBS

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