PRIORY GATEWAY AND WALLS OF ENCLOSURE

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:: PRIORY GATEWAY AND WALLS OF ENCLOSURE, HOO ROAD

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Official list entry

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

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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

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Legacy System number:: 286496
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.