10 Sep
Wall cladding
Bristol - BS13
Enquiry from: Andy W
Start Date: Immediate
Cladding to exterior gale wall. may need to remove existing pebbledash
Banwell
Banwell is a village and civil parish on the River Banwell in the North Somerset district of Somerset, England. Its population was 2,919 according to the 2011 census. Banwell Camp, eastern of the town, is a univallate hillfort which has generated flint implements from the Palaeolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age. It was additionally occupied in the Iron Age. In the late 1950s it was excavated by J.W. Hunt of the Banwell Society of Archaeology. It is surrounded by a 4 metres (13 feet) high bank as well as ditch. The remains of a Romano-British villa were discovered in 1968. It included a courtyard, wall and bath residence close to the River Banwell. Artefacts from the site recommend it fell under disuse in the fourth century. Earthworks from farm buildings, 420 metres (1,380 ft) south of Gout House Farm, occupied from the 11th to 14th centuries where archaeological remains recommend the site was first occupied in the Romano-British period. The elevated area which was occupied by the Bower House was bordered by a water filled ditch, part of which has actually because been included right into a rhyne. The church became part of the Winterstoke Hundred. Banwell Abbey was developed as a diocesans house in the 14th and also 15th century on the site of a monastic foundation. It was refurbished in 1870 by Hans Rate, as well as is now a Grade II * listed building. Close-by is a tiny building presented to the village by Miss Elizabeth Fazakerly, that lived at The Abbey in 1887 to house a tiny fire-engine. It worked as the station house up until the 1960s and currently houses a little museum of memorabilia associated with the station house. "Beard's Stone" in Cave's Wood days from 1842. It marks the reburial website of an ancient human skeletal system found in a cave near Bishop's Cottage. William Beard, an amateur excavator that had actually located the bones, had them reinterred and marked the site with the rock with a poetic inscription. Banwell Castle is a Victorian castle built in 1847 by John Dyer Sympson, a lawyer from London. Initially developed as his home, it is now a hotel and restaurant and also is a Grade II * listed structure.
