TERRACE RETAINING WALL AND TOWER APPROXIMATEY 10 METRES TO NORTH-EAST AND 60 METRES TO NORTH-WEST OF ROWTON CASTLE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1366873
Date first listed:: 29-Jan-1952
List Entry Name:: TERRACE RETAINING WALL AND TOWER APPROXIMATEY 10 METRES TO NORTH-EAST AND 60 METRES TO NORTH-WEST OF ROWTON CASTLE
Statutory Address:: TERRACE RETAINING WALL AND TOWER APPROXIMATEY 10 METRES TO NORTH-EAST AND 60 METRES TO NORTH-WEST OF ROWTON CASTLE

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Date:: 2001-06-30
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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1366873
Date first listed:: 29-Jan-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 18-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:: TERRACE RETAINING WALL AND TOWER APPROXIMATEY 10 METRES TO NORTH-EAST AND 60 METRES TO NORTH-WEST OF ROWTON CASTLE
Statutory Address 1:: TERRACE RETAINING WALL AND TOWER APPROXIMATEY 10 METRES TO NORTH-EAST AND 60 METRES TO NORTH-WEST OF ROWTON CASTLE

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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:: TERRACE RETAINING WALL AND TOWER APPROXIMATEY 10 METRES TO NORTH-EAST AND 60 METRES TO NORTH-WEST OF ROWTON CASTLE

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

District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Alberbury with Cardeston
National Grid Reference:: SJ3789312774

Details

SJ 3612-3712 14/49

ALBERBURY WITH CARDESTON C.P. ROWTON Terrace retaining wall and tower approx.10 metres to north-east and 60 metres to north-west of Rowton Castle

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Terrace retaining wall and tower. Early C19, possibly by George Wyatt. Roughly coursed Alberbury breccia rubble with red sandstone coping. Irregular U-plan; north-east wall approximately 80 metres long and 3 metres high, north-west and south-west walls approximately 35 and 30 metres long respectively, both approximately one metre high. North-west wall: high battered base, projecting string course, and parapet with chamfered coping. Terrace projecting to north-east of castle with buttresses at angles and bastions with battlemented parapets. Flight of stone steps to south-east. Projecting square tower at north-west end with plinth, cornice, and battlemented parapet with chamfered coping; 2 storeys; rectangular first-floor opening to north-east and entrance to south-east. North-west and south-west walls with earth banked above and low ha-ha. The wall and tower are probably part of the early C19 work at Rowton Castle (qv) carried out in 1809-12 by George Wyatt and in 1824-28.

Listing NGR: SJ3789312774

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Legacy System number:: 258954
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.