Perimeter Walls Of Launceston Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 June 1993. Castle walls. 1 related planning application.

Perimeter Walls Of Launceston Castle

WRENN ID
stark-belfry-thunder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Country
England
Date first listed
7 June 1993
Type
Castle walls
Source
Historic England listing

Description

LAUNCESTON

SX32843384 WESTERN ROAD 660-1/4/190 Perimeter walls of Launceston Castle

GV II

Perimeter walls of Castle. c1840, incorporating some medieval fragments. For the Duke of Northumberland. Slatestone rubble walls with local greenstone, volcanic stone and polyphant stone dressings. Roadside retaining walls to St Thomas Road, Western Road and Castle Dyke with some Gothic style features, some of which are probably re-used from the Watch of Witches Tower which collapsed when the road was being built. High walls with doorways inserted at various intervals. These walls are part of a major landscaping scheme which took place following criticism about the condition of the castle in 1840.

Listing NGR: SX3305484512

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