More information : (ST 40155865 - sited from HHR Map) Banwell Castle, terraces and courtyard walls Grade II* House, terraces and courtyard walls. Circa 1848. For John Dyer Sympson. Rubble, freestone dressings, slate. Garden front; 5 windows in main block, centre 3 step well forward between small circlar turrets, 3 storeys; 3 windows in attached 2 storey octagonal tower, 2 windows in further single storey wing to east; windows mullioned or transmullioned under drips (continuous at second floor), east wing has 16 light glazing bar sashes; off centre left is a large mullioned ground floor bay; all under corbelled embattled parapets with decorative loops. Courtyard front; 3 storeys, 7 windows all under parapets as front; at left, a circular turret with slit windows; then, set back, two bays, slits under drips, at ground floor projecting entrance porch and adjoining room, embattled turrets flank a tudor arch doorway; then 2 bays forward, first a 3 storey transmullioned window at the stairwell, then a 2 storey canted bay; 1 window in a hexagonal turret; last bay steps back; plain with slits. In front a terrace with trefoil pierce parapet, lions rampant with swords on embattled octagonal gate piers flank 6 steps; to right; a terrace behind a pair of circular embattled turrets with cross loops. Interior: Modest but elaborately decorated spaces; entrance hall has mock linenfold panelling in particular around a central fireplace; staircase has flat octagonal newel and balusters paired with rich decorative panels; drawing and dining rooms have stone tudor arch fireplace and plaster framed ceilings with foliate decoration. The building is adjoined by a terrace and dairy (q.v.). Despite date and quality of design, architect not known. (ST 40125867 - sited from HHR Map) Coachhouse at Banwell Castle Grade II* Coachhouse with former granary over. Circa 1848. Rubble, leaded flat roof. 2 storeys; gatehouse front: an arch in unworked stone below 3 round headed lancets, a tal;ler circular turret and to left C20 garage doors inserted for coach doors, all under embattled parapet; courtyard front blank ground floor with archway to left, first floor has 1 and 2 light square headed casements under uncut drips; to left higher embattled parapet, to right a circular turret; at east end a single storey, one room extension. (ST 40125868 - Sited from HHR Map) Gatehouse stables and flanking walls at Banwell Castle Grade 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. (ST 40185864 - sited from HHR Map) Terrace and dairy at Banwell Castle Grade II* Terrace from house to decorative dairy. Circa 1848. Rubble and freestone. Low walled terrace above buttressed round headed arcade; small low arch to left and next 2 larger ones lead to storage below terrace; that to right leads through to back of house; terrace culminates to right at road in a tall octagonal freestone turret with slit windows on 3 sides to road and 3 to garden, plain doorway to garden; turret is known as and may have been dairy. Terrace adjoins house (q.v.) at west and flanking wall (q.v.) at east. (ST 40105868 - 40115863 - sited from HHR Map) West garden walls with towers at Banwell Castle Grade II* Garden wall with decorative towers. Circa 1848. Rubble, freestone. Embattled garden wall with central boarded garden gate in flat arch opening; at south, a small embattled tower, square to garden with a plain door, canted to road with slit windows; at north, a 2 storey square embattled tower with corbelled circular corner turret, pointed pedestrian door to north, large flat arch opening to south. At north adjoins gatehouse flanking wall (q.v.). Kitchen garden wall and tower 170 metres south east of Banwell Castle Grade II Wall and tower to former kitchen garden, now nursery. Mid C19. Rubble, brick. Long, circa 2 metre high kitchen garden wall pierced by a pointed gateway dressed in brick with 2 returns; that to the east terminates in a circa 4 metre high embattled circular tower with a pointed door and slit windows. (1)
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