Listed building outline

Coupland Castle

Field Value Fact links
Reference 1042343 Facts
Prefix listed-building-outline Facts
Name Coupland Castle Facts
Dataset Listed building outline no fact link
Organisation Northumberland County Council no fact link
Start date 1951-09-21 no fact link
End date no fact link
Entry date 1951-09-21 Facts
Typology geography no fact link
Geometry MULTIPOLYGON (((-2.103747 55.573969, -2.103731 55.573982, -2.103739 55.573996, -2.103771 55.574005, -2.103784 55.574061, -2.103762 55.574066, -2.103784 55.574122, -2.104144 55.57408, -2.104062 55.573882, -2.104074 55.573879, -2.10404 55.573797, -2.103867 55.573816, -2.103848 55.573786, -2.103793 55.573797, -2.103801 55.57381, -2.103702 55.573822, -2.103726 55.573894, -2.103695 55.5739, -2.103708 55.573942, -2.103739 55.573937, -2.103747 55.573969))) Facts
Point POINT (-2.103913 55.573955) Facts
Dataset name Facts
Notes NT 93 SW EWART COUPLAND 3/33 Coupland Castle 21/9/51 GV I Country house. C16, C17, C18 and 1820-25. Random rubble including massive porphyry blocks, partly roughcast. Ashlar dressings and Scottish slate roofs. Towerhouse, built after 1584, with irregular later additions. Towerhouse: 4 storeys. 47 ft. x 29 ft. C19 12-pane sashes in moulded surrounds. Projecting parapet on original rounded corbels. C19 battlements. Gabled roof behind parapet with original stone-flagged walkway around. Slightly later extension to tower on left, forming T-plan for these early parts. Similar windows. Continuous moulded corbel table below parapet. Pyramidal roof and circular stair turret. 2-storey, 3-bay house of c.1820-25 attached to left. Central battlemented porch tower with Tudor-arched entrance and oriel window above on moulded corbels. Plaster rib vault in porch. 2-storey canted bay window to right and 3-light mullioned windows to left. Battlemented parapet and false gable behind porch. Left return has work of 1820-25 on right and 3-bay C18 house to left with 12-pane sash windows in raised surrounds. Rear facade irregular. Interior: Tower has vaulted basement, subdivided later into 2 rooms. Original narrow stone newel stair starts from 1st floor in corbelled-out semicircular projection now partly inside later addition to tower, which also contains a broader and later stone newel stair from ground to 1st floor. Base of this stair has round-arched doorway with roll-moulded surround, probably early C17. Similar doorway into kitchen range to rear. Base of original tower has late C17 or early C18 doorway with bolection-moulded surround. On 1st floor of tower a large fireplace dated GW 1619 MW for George and Mary Wallis. The initials set in decorative recessed panels. Tudor-arched lintel. C19 section has contemporary decoration including fine doors, cornices with Greek key pattern, cantilevered stair with wrought-iron balustrade. Several early C19 fireplaces and one late C18 wood fireplace with Corinthian columns and relief carving in lintel, brought from elsewhere. Hist. of Northumberland Vol. VII. A.A. New Series XXV 1904 by Rev. Culley. , Facts
Listed building 1042343 Facts

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