Gateway and Curtain Wall
GATEWAY AND CURTAIN WALL, CROFT PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1349763
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Gateway and Curtain Wall
- Statutory Address:
- GATEWAY AND CURTAIN WALL, CROFT PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1349763
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Gateway and Curtain Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- GATEWAY AND CURTAIN WALL, CROFT PARK
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:
- GATEWAY AND CURTAIN WALL, CROFT PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Croft and Yarpole
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 45095 65610
Details
CROFT CP CROFT PARK SO 46 NE
3/27 Gateway and curtain wall
GV II
Gateway and curtain wall. Late C18. Coursed rubble. Wall with central entrance aligned north/south, returning to east at north end with quadrant bastion in corner, this stretch of wall terminated by a square tower. South end returns to south-east and is terminated by a diamond-plan tower. Main wall is crenellated with two-centred arch of two chamfered orders to entrance flanked by two loops to each side. Quadrant and return wall to right have a plain parapet. The tower has a corbelled crenellated parapet and a cross-loop below. The battered plinth has a roll moulding. Other tower similarly detailed. Croft Castle is a property in the care of the National Trust. (BoE, p 109; National Trust Guidebook 1986, pp 13, 38).
Listing NGR: SO4509565610
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 149430
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Guide to Croft Castle, (1986), 13 38
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 109
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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