Dunstall Castle is a Grade II* listed building in the Malvern Hills local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1968. Folly ruin. 2 related planning applications.

Dunstall Castle

WRENN ID
swift-lancet-torch
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Malvern Hills
Country
England
Date first listed
25 March 1968
Type
Folly ruin
Source
Historic England listing

Description

SO 84 SE EARL'S CROOME DUNSTALL COMMON

3/45 Dunstall Castle

25.3.68

  • II*

Folly ruin. c.1750-60, attributed to Sanderson Miller. Designed as an eyecatcher ruined castle for the 6th Earl of Coventry, of Croome Court. Blue lias random rubble. Central round tower with length of wall each side, canted back and terminated in a smaller tower. Central tower with arched lower opening, string course, blank arched panel above and ruined cap with machico- lation. Plank door with studding to lower opening. Western side has wall with shallow pitch gable springing from string course of tower and large ruined Gothic window, the sill broken open to ground level, single rebate to jambs and Bath stone cusping, like plate tracery to head. Wall terminated by a narrow square tower with blank arched opening, string course, blank square headed panel with keystone to top stage and another blank panel to East side of top stage. No rear wall. Eastern side has double wall with large neo- Norman round arch, dentilled string course at impost level and flat parapet, terminated by round tower with single blank panel below and paired arched panels to top stage, ruined machicolation. Within central tower a brick staircase tower with stone winding steps.

Listing NGR: SO8856242898

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