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: Gatehouse, stables and flanking walls at Banwell Castle
List Entry Number: 1320658
Location
Banwell Castle, Castle Hill, Banwell, BS29 6NX
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County:
District: North Somerset
District Type: Unitary Authority
Parish: Banwell
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II*
Date first listed: 09-Feb-1961
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 33348
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Details
ST 45 NW
5/10
BANWELL
CASTLE HILL (south side)
Gatehouse, stables and flanking walls at Banwell Castle
9.2.61
GV
II*
Gatehouse, stables and flanking walls. Circa 1848. Rubble, freestone dressings. Chamfered double arch below parapet between circular embattled towers decorated with cross loops, that to left has ground floor slit windows; cast iron gates with heraldic motifs; from within arch, flights of steps rise into each tower through chamfered, round headed openings; to right a heavily embattled wall curves round to the tower on the west wall (q.v.); to left a larger, two storey embattled drum tower single light windows adjoins a hexagonal turret with a capping small circular turret; to left of this, an embattled wall pierced by round headed lancets for stables up to a buttress, plain thereafter the wall runs on to the dairy (q.v.); behind wall to left of gatehouse are plain lean-to altered stables.
Listing NGR: ST4011258688
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National Grid Reference: ST4011258688
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