More information : (SU237921) Strattenborough Castle Farm [NAT]. (1)
Strattenborough Castle, built 1792 to double as a working farm and an eyecatcher for Coleshill House. The farmyard is on the South side of the house but the North wall rises above the roofline with one square and one polygonal sham tower at each end. A gabled barn to the East is balanced by one to the West which has a sham, partly ruinous window of 5 lights, below which is a genuine C11th Norman tympanum. Grade II. (2)
2nd Earl of Radnor, 1792. Strattenborough Castle Farm. Castellated. Designed as an eye catcher, it is a large farmhouse with two sham towers, arrow-slits, cross-windows, adn battlements. One of the barns has a stepped gable, the other a sham five-light window. Bits of genuine 11th century fabric built in. (3)
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