Castle Barn, Flanking Dovecotes And Screen Walls

BADMINTON C.P. THE TYNING ST 78 SE

6/89 Castle Barn, - flanking Dovecotes and Screen Walls

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Barn, dovecotes and screen walls. Circa 1750 by Thomas Wright of Durham (the north inner pier of the east has the date "1748" inscribed). Rubble with freestone dressings and quoins; double Roman tiled roof. Castellated Gothic in a symmetrical range of buildings. Flanking outer walls, 25 yards to either side of main building: 2 storey screen walls with embattled parapets, 2 loop windows; the west wall serves as the gable wall of a 2 storey, 2 window C20 house; the east wall still screens a ruinous outbuilding. The main building begins with 2 outer dovecote towers: square, 3 stages with embattled parapets; 2 blocked loop windows on ground floor, blocked segmental headed windows on first floor; cill band and open segmental windows to upper stage; large segmental headed carriage entries to rear; brick nesting boxes inside. Screen walls with 2 cross loop and 2 loop windows join the towers to 2 storey turrets: semi- circular on plan with blocked loop and segmental headed windows. In the centre is the gable end of the barn: blocked north door under depressed ogee head, loop windows to either side; blocked quatrefoil in crow stepped gable. East and west gabled porches, both with trefoil heads to the carriage entries : slit vents to west side; blocked semi-circular headed windows to east side. Interior: 9 bays, king post roof, dated "1839": roof to east porch dated 18PP (?1899). A very important example of Thomas Wright's castellated Gothic buildings and one of his most important works for the 4th Duke of Beaufort in the period 1748-1756. Harris, E. Country Life. 9.IX.71.

Listing NGR: ST7928482702