The Castle About 3/4 Mile East of Hagley Hall
THE CASTLE ABOUT 3/4 MILE EAST OF HAGLEY HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1348597
- Date first listed:
- 23-Nov-1979
- List Entry Name:
- The Castle About 3/4 Mile East of Hagley Hall
- Statutory Address:
- THE CASTLE ABOUT 3/4 MILE EAST OF HAGLEY HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1348597
- Date first listed:
- 23-Nov-1979
- List Entry Name:
- The Castle About 3/4 Mile East of Hagley Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE CASTLE ABOUT 3/4 MILE EAST OF HAGLEY HALL
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:
- THE CASTLE ABOUT 3/4 MILE EAST OF HAGLEY HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Bromsgrove (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hagley
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 92896 80634
Details
SO 98 SW
2/127
HAGLEY CP
HAGLEY PARK
The Castle about ¾ mile east of Hagley Hall
23.11.79
II*
Ruined castle folly. Begun in 1747 by Sanderson Miller for George, First Lord Lyttleton, with mid C19 additions and late C20 alterations. Sandstone ashlar and coursed dressed sandstone rubble with sandstone ashlar dressings; slate roofs.
Rectangular plan with four round corner towers; only the northwest tower is complete and is of four storeys; the other towers are of one or two storeys and left in a deliberately ruinous state. Gothick style. The northwest tower has small rectangular and lancet (some are cusped) windows on the lower floors; the fourth floor has large pointed windows. Adjoining to the southeast is an intersecting taller stair turret; both tower and turret have corbelled and embattled parapets. The other towers have small rectangular and square openings. The linking walls are deliberately ruinous but the west wall is almost complete and has three tall pointed windows; beneath the central window is a pointed doorway and above the doorway are three shield reliefs.
Interior: the principal room on the fourth floor of the northwest tower has a domed ceiling with Gothick plaster decoration, cusped pointed niches alternating with the windows and above the door is a quatrefoil containing a coat of arms. Within the courtyard, adjacent to the northwest tower is a C19 building with a shallow-pitched hipped slate roof; single storey; single bay; in the south elevation is a three-light casement with a four-centred head and latticed lights and, to the left, the entrance with a gabled rustic timber porch. The castle is said to incorporate medieval masonry from the remains of Halesowen Abbey and is the largest building in Hagley Park.
Listing NGR: SO9289680634
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 156390
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Worcester, (1913), 131
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 178
Country Life in Country Life, Vol. 122, (1957), 545, 608
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 20 Hereford and Worcester,
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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