RETAINING WALL TO INNER COURTYARD AT THURLAND CASTLE, WITH TOWER BASE ADJOINING ON SOUTH-WEST SIDE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1317738
Date first listed:: 04-Dec-1985
List Entry Name:: RETAINING WALL TO INNER COURTYARD AT THURLAND CASTLE, WITH TOWER BASE ADJOINING ON SOUTH-WEST SIDE
Statutory Address:: RETAINING WALL TO INNER COURTYARD AT THURLAND CASTLE, WITH TOWER BASE ADJOINING ON SOUTH-WEST SIDE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1317738
Date first listed:: 04-Dec-1985
List Entry Name:: RETAINING WALL TO INNER COURTYARD AT THURLAND CASTLE, WITH TOWER BASE ADJOINING ON SOUTH-WEST SIDE
Statutory Address 1:: RETAINING WALL TO INNER COURTYARD AT THURLAND CASTLE, WITH TOWER BASE ADJOINING ON SOUTH-WEST SIDE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: RETAINING WALL TO INNER COURTYARD AT THURLAND CASTLE, WITH TOWER BASE ADJOINING ON SOUTH-WEST SIDE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Lancashire
District:: Lancaster (District Authority)
Parish:: Cantsfield
National Grid Reference:: SD6104573067

Details

CANTSFIELD SD 67 SW

5/61 Retaining wall to inner courtyard at Thurland Castle, with tower base adjoining on south-west side.

GV II

Wall, 1880s, with tower base probably C14th, sandstone rubble. Wall has saddle-backed coping. At its northern end there is a doorway with elliptical arch and a flight of stone steps leading down to a lower level. At its south-eastern end it terminates with an octagonal pier. Against its south-western side there is the base of a tower, of rectangular plan with a weathered plinth. Its eastern wall has a chamfered doorway with a chamfered surround on its inner side. Inside the tower is barrel-vaulted.

Listing NGR: SD6104573067

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Legacy System number:: 182356
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.