The Castle and walls to the north-west and south-east

The Castle and walls to the north-west and south-east, The Wharf, Bude, EX23 8LG

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1328495
Date first listed:: 09-Sep-1985
List Entry Name:: The Castle and walls to the north-west and south-east
Statutory Address:: The Castle and walls to the north-west and south-east, The Wharf, Bude, EX23 8LG

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Date:: 1999-09-16
Reference:: IOE01/00046/20
Rights:: © Hilary Phillips. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1328495
Date first listed:: 09-Sep-1985
List Entry Name:: The Castle and walls to the north-west and south-east
Statutory Address 1:: The Castle and walls to the north-west and south-east, The Wharf, Bude, EX23 8LG

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:: The Castle and walls to the north-west and south-east, The Wharf, Bude, EX23 8LG

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Bude-Stratton
National Grid Reference:: SS 20606 06374

Details

SS 2006-2106 11/158

BUDE-STRATTON BUDE The Castle and walls to the north-west and south-east

II

House. 1830, with late C20 alterations. Built for Sir Goldsworthy Gurney. Stone rubble with hipped slate roofs hidden behind parapet and brick chimneys and slate pots, partly hung with large slates to the rear. Picturesque irregular house. Piano nobile and basement to main range, two storeys elsewhere. Long low asymmetrical front with three-bay main range and slightly advanced castellated entrance wing to the left with double flight of steps behind piers and walls up to entrance. Two further set back bays to the left are also castellated. Two set back bays to the right of the main range and a castellated turret link the main range to a further two-bay castellated block and a single bay castellated block to the right. Entrance wing and main front one + three windows, the centre one broken forward with original six-panel front door on front at right of entrance wing. Three round-headed basement windows have high transoms and barred glazing in heads. Three first floor C19 windows are twelve-pane hornless sashes, voussoirs repaired with cement. Platband under parapet with slits is also repaired in cement. Long C19 four-pane sash window in entrance wing to left of front door. C19 horned sashes to right hand wing. Interior altered for Council Offices. Castellated boundary walls to north-west and south-east.

Sir Goldsworthy Gurney, doctor, engineer and philanthropist developed the steam carriage with the intention of improving public transport. Between 1839 and 1842 he was granted a patent for the Bude Light using manganese and was eventually invited to design the lighting and ventilation in the Houses of Parliament. He was also involved in schemes to improve safety in the mining industry. He built the Castle on land leased from Sir Thomas Dyke Acland. The design of the Castle included an early use of concrete foundations to counteract the instability of the sandy site, and it was at the Castle that Gurney evolved the Bude Light.

Listing NGR: SS2060606374

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Legacy System number:: 64739
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Harris, T R, Sir Goldsworthy Gurney 1793-1875, (1975)

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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.