Fillingham Castle

Heritage listing

Details SK 98 NE FILLINGHAM MIDDLE STREET (East side) 5/28 Fillingham Castle 25.10.51 G.V. I Country house. c.1770, late C18. Possibly by John Carr. Gothick. Limestone ashlar, coursed limestone rubble. Flat roof and 3 parallel slate roofs. 3 visible brick stacks; single stonestack below roof line. Rectangular C18 range with large corner turrets. Truncated C19 range to north. 2 storey, 5 bay front with plinth, projecting central bay and central doorway with bolecton moulded stone doorcase with ogee head, traceried fanlight and deep-set partially glazed doors. Doorway flanked by single glazing bar sashes with 3 glazing bar sashes in each turret. Flat band above doorway rising to segmental arch at apex of doorway. First floor ashlar band above, running over flanking turrets. Large glazing bar sash above doorway, flanked by smaller glazing bar sashes with 3 glazing bar sashes and 3 blind oculi in each turret. Flat band above rising to gable above central bay. Battlements on turrets and main body of house. East front with rubble basement with traces of 4 blocked basement openings. Ashlar band above running over turrets at each end, 4 glazing bar sashes, with 3 glazing bar sashes in north-east turret. First floor ashlar-band above with 4 glazing bar sashes and 3 more glazing bar sashes above in turrets. Flat band and battlements above. All the windows in C18 range with elliptical heads and traceried upper sashes. Later C18 range to north with 5 bay east front. Plinth with 4 glazing bar sashes with large round headed glazing bar sash to right with traceried upper sash. First floor ashlar band with 4 glazing bar sashes above. Band rises in right hand bay to run under small fixed glazing bar window set in blind segmental opening. Flat band above rising to gable over right hand b

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.