List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: WALLS OF THE OUTER BAILEY AT BEESTON CASTLE
List Entry Number: 1130513
Location
WALLS OF THE OUTER BAILEY AT BEESTON CASTLE, CASTLE ROAD
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County:
District: Cheshire West and Chester
District Type: Unitary Authority
Parish: Beeston
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: I
Date first listed: 01-Mar-1967
Date of most recent amendment: 03-Apr-1986
Legacy System Information
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 55799
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List Entry Description
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History
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Details
SJ 55 NW,
5/9
BEESTON C.P.,
(Off) CASTLE ROAD,
Walls of the Outer Bailey at Beeston Castle
(formerly listed as: Beeston Castle)
01.03.67.
G.V.
I
Section of walling, gatehouse and towers of outer bailey wall. c.1220
altered late C13/early C14. Built for Ranulf de Blundeville, 7th Earl
of Chester. Roughly coursed red sandstone. There is a break in the
walling at the point of the former gatehouse. The southern walling
has six D-shaped and one rectangular tower. At the northern end of
the wall are remnants of the southern tower of the gatehouse.
Immediately to the left of this and adjacent is a later C15 or C16
square garderobe tower. To the left of this are 5 further D-shaped
towers divided by curtain walling. Each tower has one or two lateral
arrow slits covering the curtain walls. The northern walling has
three D-shaped towers. At the southern end of the wall are remnants
of the northern tower of the gatehouse. The lower courses of the
walls and towers are all that remain, the upper courses having been
demolished c.1646 or thereafter. On the death of Ranulf de
Blundeville's nephew the castle passed to the Crown. In the late C13
and early C14 Edward I carried out modernising alterations. By the
late C16 Leland described the castle as "shattered and ruinous". In
1643 it was partially repaired and occupied by parliamentary troops
and taken by Royalist forces in the same year. It was partially
demolished in 1646 to prevent its repeated use as a stronghold.
Archaeological evidence of Bronze and Iron-age settlements on the site
has been found.
Listing NGR: SJ5393159215
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Map
National Grid Reference: SJ 53921 59148
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