Tiverton Castle
TIVERTON CASTLE, PARK HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1384869
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Tiverton Castle
- Statutory Address:
- TIVERTON CASTLE, PARK HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1384869
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Apr-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Tiverton Castle
- Statutory Address 1:
- TIVERTON CASTLE, PARK HILL
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:
- TIVERTON CASTLE, PARK HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Tiverton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 95438 12897
Details
TIVERTON
SS9512 PARK HILL, Tiverton
848-1/6/158 (West side)
12/02/52 Tiverton Castle
(Formerly Listed as:
CASTLE WARD
Castle)
GV I
Castle, the seat of the Courtenay family (Earls of Devon),
from the late C13 until 1539 (Pevsner). C14 core with evidence
for major phases of rebuilding in the seventeenth century,
after the Civil War, by Peter West, a Tiverton merchant, and
in the late C17. Extensions and alterations of the C19.
MATERIALS: local purple volcanic stone, some rubble, some
coursed, the earlier fabric with volcanic and Beerstone
dressings. The C19 work has Ham Hill dressings. Slate and lead
roofs; stacks with brick and rendered shafts.
PLAN: the castle is sited high above the river, just south of
the parish church (qv). The plan is a courtyard arrangement,
with the gatehouse in the east range, flanked by guardrooms
with accommodation over.
The north range is largely ruinous, but with sections of
medieval walling surviving to the former roof level.
The west side consists of the remains of retaining walls
including the bases of two towers.
There is a ruinous solar tower at the south-west corner of the
site and a round tower at the south-east corner.
The complex contains a late C17 house, extended probably in
the late C19, sited in the north-east corner of the courtyard.
A second house, Castle Barton (qv), is sited outside the walls
and listed separately, as is a lodge, Castle Lodge (qv).
The visible fourteenth century fabric is the two inner (west)
bays of the gatehouse, which was extended to the east by one
bay in the C15 and has been reduced from three storeys to two
since 1734, judging from an engraving by Buck.
The ruinous south wall of the south range is also C14,
variously interpreted as a domestic range or a chapel over
services, and the solar tower at the south-west corner.
The site of the C14 hall is unclear. A gabled projection off
the east range is dated 1588 with the initials RG for Robert
Gifford, but there is little visible sixteenth-century fabric.
The east range appears to have been partly remodelled in the
C17, including a late C17 stair and ovolo-moulded mullioned
windows. Somewhat later in the C17, the house in the
north-east corner was added or rebuilt.
Listing NGR: SS9545412931
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485328
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Tiverton Castle, Tiverton, Devon, (1992)
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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