Kithill Castle
KITHILL CASTLE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1329413
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Kithill Castle
- Statutory Address:
- KITHILL CASTLE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1329413
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Kithill Castle
- Statutory Address 1:
- KITHILL CASTLE
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:
- KITHILL CASTLE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Callington
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 37779 70479
Details
SX 37 SE CALLINGTON
3/6 Kithill Castle
23,1.68
GV II
Engine house for Princess of Wales Mine converted to a spa and health resort and now a private house. Circa early C19, converted circa 1880 for William Dingle. Rubblestone, rendered, with large granite quoins. Moulded granite string above ground floor on front. Flat plat-band on front above first floor. Slate roof with hipped ends extended to rear in cat-slide. Brick stacks to rear. Comprising one large room per storey. Originally 4 storeys with flat roof, later reduced to 3 in circa mid C20. Ground floor with projecting porch covered in locally made Phoenix terracotta ornamental tiles. Moulded granite cornice with sl.ightly coved roof. Entrance door and rectangular side windows with margin glazing bars. First floor with 2 round headed sashes with thin glazing bars. 2 round headed sashes above with radiating glazing bars and stone keys in round arches. Right-hand side wall with 12- pane sashes with segmented arched heads to ground and first floor. Second floor sash altered in bottom light. Extending to rear, kitchen wing with 2 storey further extension on east. Rubblestone with slate roof with gable ends. 12-pane sashes on ground floor and 16-pane sash above. Late C19 cast iron grates retained in interior. For illustrations of Kit Hill Castle prior to alterations, see Lightbody p105 and Venning p73. Patron, William Dingle was an eminent leader of the Wesleyan Church in Callington. A. K. Hamilton Jenkin Mines and Miners of Cornwall volume 15, 1976 Sheila Lightbody The Book of Callington 1982 James Venning Vennings New Central Postal Directory 1901, p73
Listing NGR: SX3777970479
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 61207
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hamilton Jenkins, A K, Mines and Miners of Cornwall, (1976)
Venning, J, Vennings New Central Postal Directory, (1901), 73
Lightbody, S, The Book of Callington, (1982), 105
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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