Rothley Castle
ROTHLEY CASTLE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1371065
- Date first listed:
- 29-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Rothley Castle
- Statutory Address:
- ROTHLEY CASTLE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1371065
- Date first listed:
- 29-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Rothley Castle
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROTHLEY 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:
- ROTHLEY CASTLE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Rothley
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 04375 88743
Details
ROTHLEY ROTHLEY NZ 08 NW 17/74 Rothley Castle
II*
Folly. c.1755 by Daniel Garrett for Sir Walter Blackett. Random rubble. Gothick style. Canted screen wall stretching c.60 yards along top of hill with square end towers and larger square central tower.
Central tower: 2 storeys. Tall pointed-arched doorway with flanking blocked lower arches forming niches. Above it a cruciform slit, the arms of the cross treated as mouchettes. Very large, rough, close-set corbels. Roofless. Similar arched niches on each of the other sides.
Screen walls stand to c.8 ft. in places, ruinous in others. Five cruciform slits remain.
End towers have pointed-arched niches on 3 sides, open on 4th side towards inner face of wall. Similar corbels.
Interior of central tower has stone stairs to roof platform. Full-height room behind arched doorway has, to left and right, two tall screens of two unmoulded square columns.
TYNE & WEAR COUNTY COUNCIL MUSEUMS; Capability Brown and the Northern Landscape: Exhibition Catalogue: 1983.
Listing NGR: NZ0437588743
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 236313
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Capability Brown and the Northern Landscape Exhibition Catalogue, (1983)
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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