Priory Gateway and Walls of Enclosure
PRIORY GATEWAY AND WALLS OF ENCLOSURE, HOO ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1030294
- Date first listed:
- 15-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Priory Gateway and Walls of Enclosure
- Statutory Address:
- PRIORY GATEWAY AND WALLS OF ENCLOSURE, HOO ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1030294
- Date first listed:
- 15-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Priory Gateway and Walls of Enclosure
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRIORY GATEWAY AND WALLS OF ENCLOSURE, HOO ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- PRIORY GATEWAY AND WALLS OF ENCLOSURE, HOO ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Letheringham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM2678758599
Details
LETHERINGHAM (Off) HOO ROAD
TM 25 NE
(South side)
5/83
Priory Gateway and
walls of enclosure
G.V. II
Priory gateway. Late C15 or C16 with walls of enclosure of various dates.
Red English bond brick with black headers and pantile roof. Two storeys.
South face: polygonal buttresses to the angles. Central double chamfered
gate arch which has C19 brick infill in Flemish bond with a cambered-headed
doorway. Above the gate arch is a window, blocked with C18 brick and above
that a 3-light Perpendicular window with chamfered brick mullions and a 4-
centered arched head. Gable above, which covers the tops of the polygonal
buttresses. Recessed and at right is a range of C19 farm buildings not
included in this item. The right hand side has a niche to the centre.
Left hand side has offsets at the same level as those on the polygonal
buttresses but is otherwise blank. The north face has polygonal buttresses
at either side and a blocked gate arch at centre similar to that on the
south front. Two blocked rectangular windows to the first floor at right
and left.
Listing NGR: TM2678758599
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 286496
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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