Garden walls surrounding Featherstone Castle, with gatehouse, gateways, bastions, beebole and mausoleum

Garden walls surrounding Featherstone Castle, with gatehouse, gateways, bastions, beebole and mausoleum, Hall Bank

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1370308
Date first listed:: 27-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:: Garden walls surrounding Featherstone Castle, with gatehouse, gateways, bastions, beebole and mausoleum
Statutory Address:: Garden walls surrounding Featherstone Castle, with gatehouse, gateways, bastions, beebole and mausoleum, Hall Bank

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1370308
Date first listed:: 27-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:: Garden walls surrounding Featherstone Castle, with gatehouse, gateways, bastions, beebole and mausoleum
Statutory Address 1:: Garden walls surrounding Featherstone Castle, with gatehouse, gateways, bastions, beebole and mausoleum, Hall Bank

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:: Garden walls surrounding Featherstone Castle, with gatehouse, gateways, bastions, beebole and mausoleum, Hall Bank

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

District:: Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Featherstone
National Grid Reference:: NY6740761035

Details

NY 66 SE 15/96

FEATHERSTONE HALL BANK (South side, off) Garden walls surrounding Featherstone Castle, with gatehouse, gateways, bastions, beebole and mausoleum

II

Garden walls, gatehouse, three gateways, bastions, beebole and ruins of mausoleum/chapel; c.1812-30 for Thomas Wallace; mausoleum of Lady Jane Hope 1828. Squared rubble. Castellated style. Continuous and extensive walls enclosing large garden and forecourt.

1.5 to 2.5-metre high walls with flat-coped battlements. Buildings and other features described in an anti-clockwise direction:

1. Gatehouse and archway near north west corner. L-plan two storey gatehouse has pointed openings, shield with carved lion (Wallace emblem) and parapet with bartizan. Archway on east has four-centred pedestrian and coach arches.

2. Tall buttressed gateway in front of castle forecourt has four-centred arch under hoodmould.

3. Low circular plan bastion at south west corner.

4. Gateway near south east corner has wide four-centre arch; lower section on west with pointed doorway.

5. Low circular plan bastion at south east corner.

6. Mausoleum and chapel ruins to north of south east bastion. Roofless two storey mausoleum with pointed two-light windows and tall semi-octagonal tower. East wall of chapel on south.

7. Square plan bastion to north of mausoleum.

8. Square plan bastion set diagonally at north east corner.

9. Gateway near north east corner similar to Item 4 except that coach arch is now blocked.

10. Beebole to west of gateway facing into garden has four-pointed openings above projecting stone shelves.

11. Tall single storey square plan tower at north west corner has projecting parapet with corner bartizan.

Listing NGR: NY6740761035

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 240700
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.