Garden walls surrounding Featherstone Castle, with gatehouse, gateways, bastions, beebole and mausoleum is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 July 1987. Garden walls, gatehouse, bastions, mausoleum.

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

WRENN ID
former-gallery-mist
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Country
England
Date first listed
27 July 1987
Type
Garden walls, gatehouse, bastions, mausoleum
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The garden walls surrounding Featherstone Castle, along with a gatehouse, gateways, bastions, a beebole, and the ruins of a mausoleum, were built around 1812 to 1830 for Thomas Wallace, with the mausoleum dedicated to Lady Jane Hope completed in 1828. The walls are constructed of squared rubble in a castellated style and form extensive and continuous enclosures around a large garden and forecourt, standing between 1.5 to 2.5 metres high with flat-coped battlements.

Starting from the northwest corner, the first feature is the gatehouse, which has an L-plan and two storeys, featuring pointed openings, a shield with a carved lion (the Wallace emblem), and a parapet with a bartizan. The archway on the east side includes both pedestrian and coach arches with four-centred designs.

Next, there is a tall buttressed gateway leading into the castle forecourt, which also has a four-centred arch under a hoodmould. At the southwest corner, a low circular bastion can be found. Moving to the southeast corner, another gateway features a wide four-centred arch, with the lower section on the west side containing a pointed doorway, alongside a low circular bastion.

To the north of the southeast bastion are the ruins of the mausoleum and chapel, which include a roofless two-storey mausoleum with pointed two-light windows and a tall semi-octagonal tower, while the east wall of the chapel is located to the south. A square bastion is positioned to the north of the mausoleum, and another square bastion is set diagonally at the northeast corner.

There is also a gateway near the northeast corner similar to the earlier one, although the coach arch is now blocked. Adjacent to this gateway, a beebole faces into the garden and features four-pointed openings above projecting stone shelves. Finally, at the northwest corner, there is a tall single-storey square tower with a projecting parapet and corner bartizan.

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