Bastions And Walls Of Star Castle is a Grade I listed building in the Isles of Scilly local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 February 1975. Fortified structure.
Bastions And Walls Of Star Castle
- WRENN ID
- mired-brick-starling
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Isles of Scilly
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 February 1975
- Type
- Fortified structure
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
ST. MARY'S
SV81SE THE GARRISON, Hugh Town 1358-0/3/86 Bastions and Walls of Star Castle 12/02/75 (Formerly Listed as: THE GARRISON, Hugh Town Star Castle)
GV I
Bastions and walls. 1593 with C18 additions. Architect/engineer Robert Adams. Roughly coursed granite rubble with dressed quoins; slate roofs; granite stacks. Eight-sided star-shaped plan. Single storey with some second storey additions. Battered walls to ditch has string-course divisions and coped parapet. Stairs, piers and walls across ditch to 2-storey entrance porch, slightly brought forward with moulded square-headed architrave, date 1593 and tablet with monogram ER above, and pyramidal roof to bracketed-out top storey above parapet level; C18 bellcote on parapet wall to left. Parapet with sally port openings. Ramparts above 3 pyramidal-roofed rectangular rooms, built as guardhouse, office, lock-up etc, with slit windows, stacks, and C19/20 plank doors and glazing-bar casements; that to the south-west angle is roofless. Raised platform at north-west angle. An important component of the late C16/17 fort centred around Star Castle (qv).
Listing NGR: SV8991310622
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