Description

ST. MARY'S

SV81SE THE GARRISON, Hugh Town
1358-0/3/86 Bastions and Walls of Star Castle
12/02/75
(Formerly Listed as:
THE GARRISON, Hugh Town
Star Castle)

GV I

Bastions and walls. 1593 with C18 additions.
Architect/engineer Robert Adams. Roughly coursed granite
rubble with dressed quoins; slate roofs; granite stacks.
Eight-sided star-shaped plan. Single storey with some second
storey additions. Battered walls to ditch has string-course
divisions and coped parapet. Stairs, piers and walls across
ditch to 2-storey entrance porch, slightly brought forward
with moulded square-headed architrave, date 1593 and tablet
with monogram ER above, and pyramidal roof to bracketed-out
top storey above parapet level; C18 bellcote on parapet wall
to left. Parapet with sally port openings. Ramparts above 3
pyramidal-roofed rectangular rooms, built as guardhouse,
office, lock-up etc, with slit windows, stacks, and C19/20
plank doors and glazing-bar casements; that to the south-west
angle is roofless. Raised platform at north-west angle. An
important component of the late C16/17 fort centred around
Star Castle (qv).

Listing NGR: SV8991310622

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17529207

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Recommended Books

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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5