The Gatehouse
THE GATEHOUSE, THAME ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1118320
- Date first listed:
- 26-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Gatehouse
- Statutory Address:
- THE GATEHOUSE, THAME ROAD
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- Date:
- 2002-10-07
- Reference:
- IOE01/07710/26
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1118320
- Date first listed:
- 26-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Gatehouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GATEHOUSE, THAME 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:
- THE GATEHOUSE, THAME ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chilton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 68836 11558
Details
SP 61 SE CHILTON THAME ROAD (east side) 1/68 The Gatehouse
26.10.51
GV II*
House. Dated 1683 in raised cut brick above central door. Chequer brick. Hipped old tile roof. 6 bays. 2 storeys plus dormers. Central doorway has architraved frame and original 4-panel oak door. Evidence of hood above. Flanked in central bays by single light transomed windows. Other windows mullioned and transomed cross-casements of 2 lights, all with leaded lights. Moulded frames. Flat arches to windows. Band course between storeys. Above doorway is raised pattern of scrolls with central pineapple on stalk, flanked by date '16' and '83', all in projecting cut brick. Two 2-light swept dormers with leaded casements above bays 2 and 5. Tall flanking stacks. Modern addition at rear, but several cross-windows to flank and rear which retain original glass and leading. Interior, Full height open well closed string staircase in centre bays rising from entrance hall. Turned balusters, ramped moulded handrails. Door cases to left and right of hall have heavy bolection architraves and frieze and cornice. RCHM I. 106. MON.6.
Listing NGR: SP6883911558
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 43005
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume One South, (1912)
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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