Gatehouse, stables and flanking walls at Banwell Castle is a Grade II* listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1961. A Victorian Gatehouse.
Gatehouse, stables and flanking walls at Banwell Castle
- WRENN ID
- still-wall-acorn
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- North Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1961
- Type
- Gatehouse
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Gatehouse, stables and flanking walls at Banwell Castle, Castle Hill, BS29 6NX
- OS grid reference
- ST 401 586
- Coordinates
- 51.32411, -2.86085
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gatehouse, stables, and flanking walls at Banwell Castle were built around 1848 and are constructed from rubble with freestone dressings. The gatehouse features a chamfered double arch beneath a parapet, situated between two circular embattled towers that are decorated with cross loops. The left tower includes ground floor slit windows and has cast iron gates adorned with heraldic motifs. Inside the arch, flights of steps lead up into each tower through chamfered, round-headed openings. To the right, a heavily embattled wall curves around to the west tower, while to the left, a larger two-storey embattled drum tower with single light windows is adjacent to a hexagonal turret capped with a small circular turret. Further left, an embattled wall with round-headed lancets for the stables extends to a buttress, and beyond that, the wall continues plain to the dairy. Behind the wall to the left of the gatehouse, there are plain lean-to stables that have been altered.
Local climate
Gatehouse, stables and flanking walls at Banwell Castle receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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