Description

SO 97 NW BELBROUGHTON CP BELL END

6/4 Castle Bourne with attached folly and 23.4.52 adjoining wall (formerly listed as Castle Bourne)

II

House with attached folly, now house, and adjoining wall. Late C18 folly with mid-C19 house and wall; further late C20 additions. Rendered brick with slate roofs behind embattled parapets. Main house: square two-bay plan with octagonal corner turrets forming chimneys with pointed-arched narrow panels decorating caps; single-bay south porch wing. Two storeys, basement and attic with dormers; strings at main storey levels which con- tinue around turrets. Gothick style. Main south elevation: two ground floor bay windows with moulded cornices; two first floor 4-light windows (lights have pointed heads) with cornices above interrupting upper string; between them is a blind circular opening with moulded surround; two gabled dormers with scalloped bargeboards and lancet windows. Porch wing has similar corner turrets and is of two storeys; south elevation has moulded flat canopy with embattled parapet on two octagonal columns, half-glazed double doors and a transom light with leaded glass; above is a first floor circular window with leaded glass and moulded surround. Right side of main house, in angle with porch wing, has a 3-light window with pointed lights on both floors. Interior: C19 moulded plaster ceilings in main rooms. Dog- leg staircase with large turned balusters. Poll : square three-bay plan, outer bays formed by large circular corner towers. Two storeys. South elevation: ground floor of towers has pointed windows (some blind) and first floor has quatrefoil windows and relief mouldings above in form of Maltese crosses. Central bay has blocked pointed doorway with hood mould and returns and a blind pointed first floor window. Wall: links main house to folly. About 20 yards long and 15 feet high with embattled parapet above moulded cornice. Central archway with 4-centred head flanked by pointed arch- ways; all have hood moulds with returns; the right archway has an inserted C20 half-glazed door leading to a rear addition. Large C20 addition to left side of house; single storey with four large 4-light windows and of similar design to main house. There is a similar folly about 150 yards south of Clent Grove, Clent CP (qv). (BoE, p 79).

Listing NGR: SO9439576877

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