Castle Farmhouse

Castle Farmhouse, Market Place. 10/69 8/69

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ST5222 ILCHESTER CP MARKET PLACE (West side) 10/69 Castle Farmhouse 19.4.61 GV II Former inn, later farmhouse. C18. Local lias stone cut and squared. Ham stone dressings; Welsh slate roof with plain gables; red and grey banded brick chimney stacks. Three storeys, 4 bays. Plinth, band courses, rusticated quoins; 12-pane sash windows in keystoned architraves; to lower bay 3 a C19 door with rectangular fanlight in moulded architrave with moulded flat stone hood on shaped brackets. Tall single-storey single-bay extension on north-east gable, with hipped roof and plain casement windows. Interior not seen. A farm, created on the site of the medieval Whitehall Nunnery; the farmhouse was known as The Bell Inn by 1813, and by 1825 was known as the Castle Inn; by 1840 it was the largest coaching inn in the town, but by 1856 seems to have been reshaped as a farm: it was vacated in 1978, since when most of the farm buildings have been converted or demolished (SSAVBRG Report on the Farmstead, SRO Unpublished, September 1981).

Listing NGR: ST5218022757