{"entry-date":"2013-01-29","start-date":"1952-10-20","end-date":"","entity":42155846,"name":"Chipchase Castle","dataset":"listed-building-outline","typology":"geography","reference":"1155161","prefix":"listed-building-outline","organisation-entity":220,"geometry":"MULTIPOLYGON (((-2.185675 55.076242, -2.185845 55.076314, -2.185976 55.076208, -2.185898 55.076174, -2.185824 55.076234, -2.185582 55.076132, -2.185885 55.075888, -2.185736 55.075824, -2.185716 55.075839, -2.185522 55.075759, -2.185535 55.075747, -2.185393 55.075689, -2.185382 55.075696, -2.18534 55.0757, -2.185326 55.075712, -2.185342 55.07573, -2.185326 55.075743, -2.185359 55.075757, -2.185322 55.075786, -2.18528 55.075767, -2.185231 55.075804, -2.185273 55.075823, -2.185237 55.07585, -2.185199 55.075834, -2.185182 55.075845, -2.185142 55.075852, -2.185133 55.075859, -2.185143 55.075879, -2.185122 55.075895, -2.185292 55.075967, -2.185301 55.07596, -2.185535 55.076059, -2.185439 55.076133, -2.185527 55.076171, -2.185519 55.076176, -2.185675 55.076242)))","point":"POINT (-2.185546 55.075958)","quality":"authoritative","notes":"NY 87 NE CHOLLERTON CHIPCHASE 9/35 Chipchase Castle 20.10.52 GV I Country house. C14, 1621 and C18. Minor alterations C19. Work of 1621 for Cuthbert Heron. Also work by John Dodds and John Dobson for Reed family. Earlier work done for Herons and Allgoods. Random rubble, dressed stone and ashlar in different sections. Stone and Welsh slate roofs. Tower with later additions, now forming courtyard house. Entrance front of 1621 E-shaped: 3 storeys, 7 bays. Doorway, in 3-storey centrepiece, has moulded jambs, imposts and round arch framed by carved panels and flanked by ?-fluted Ionic columns on bases with strapwork and emblems of Heron family. Frieze with blank arches, dentilled cornice and obelisks above columns with Heron coat of arms between. Canted mullioned-and-transomed bay windows above. Parapet with ornamental cresting and beasts with shields. 2-bay recessed sections have mid-C18 12-pane sashes in raised surrounds. Basement has 2-light mullioned windows. Projecting outer bays have 2-storey mullioned- and-transomed bow windows, shown with sashes in 1784. They have embattled parapets and beasts with shields. 12-pane sashes on 2nd floor. String course above each floor and embattled top parapet with round arches surmounted by beasts above outer bays and diagonally-set octagonal chimneys above each corner. Hipped roof. Left return has mid-C14 tower on left. Dressed stone. 4 storeys with bartizans and machicolations on corbels. Given classical detail to unify facade in mid C18. 3 storeys, 9 bays, 2:5:2. Recessed 5-bay centre has steps up to Roman Doric doorcase. 12-pane sashes in moulded surrounds. String course above each floor. Embattled parapet. Right return and rear of house mid C18 with older masonry behind. 2 storeys. 2 pedimented doorways and sashes with glazing bars. Rear of tower, has C14 blocked 2-light window with cusped ogee heads; also 2 corbelled garderobe chutes. Early C19 single-storey service wing attached to north-west corner. Interior of tower has vaulted basement, stone newel stair and original portcullis. Elsewhere several mid-C18 plaster ceilings, especially Music room which has Rococo detail. Elaborate Jacobean overmantel, also in Music room. Palladian doorcases with eared architraves and pulvinated friezes. Country Life Vol. CXIX. ,","listed-building":"1155161"}