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
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1961
- Type
- Gatehouse
- Period
- Victorian
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
ST 45 NW 5/10
BANWELL CASTLE HILL (south side) Gatehouse, stables and flanking walls at Banwell Castle
9.2.61
GV II* Gatehouse, stables and flanking walls. Circa 1848. Rubble, freestone dressings. Chamfered double arch below parapet between circular embattled towers decorated with cross loops, that to left has ground floor slit windows; cast iron gates with heraldic motifs; from within arch, flights of steps rise into each tower through chamfered, round headed openings; to right a heavily embattled wall curves round to the tower on the west wall (q.v.); to left a larger, two storey embattled drum tower single light windows adjoins a hexagonal turret with a capping small circular turret; to left of this, an embattled wall pierced by round headed lancets for stables up to a buttress, plain thereafter the wall runs on to the dairy (q.v.); behind wall to left of gatehouse are plain lean-to altered stables.
Listing NGR: ST4011258688
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