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© Mike Bedingfield LRPS
IoE Number:
33348
Location:
GATEHOUSE, STABLES AND FLANKING WALLS AT BANWELL CASTLE, CASTLE HILL (south side)
BANWELL, NORTH SOMERSET, SOMERSET
Photographer:
Mike Bedingfield LRPS
Date Photographed:
20 September 2001
Date listed:
09 February 1961
Date of last amendment:
09 February 1961
Grade
II*
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ST 45 NW BANWELL CASTLE HILL (south side)
5/10 Gatehouse, stables and flanking
9.2.61 walls at Banwell Castle
G.V.
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, 2 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.