Gatehouse 35 Metres to West of the Castle Keep

Gatehouse 35 metres to west of the Castle Keep

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1136324
Date first listed:
24-Sept-1984
List Entry Name:
Gatehouse 35 Metres to West of the Castle Keep
Statutory Address:
Gatehouse 35 metres to west of the Castle Keep
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1136324
Date first listed:
24-Sept-1984
List Entry Name:
Gatehouse 35 Metres to West of the Castle Keep
Statutory Address 1:
Gatehouse 35 metres to west of the Castle Keep

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
Gatehouse 35 metres to west of the Castle Keep

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Newton St. Loe
National Grid Reference:
ST 69358 63975

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21 October 2025 to amend details in the description and to reformat text to current standards

ST 66 SE
7/135

NEWTON ST. LOE
NEWTON PARK
Gatehouse, 35 m. to west of the Castle Keep

G.V.
I

Gatehouse. C15, altered late C18 - early C19. Coursed rubble with freestone dressings, hipped slate roofs concealed behind plain and embattled parapets. Two storeys. West Elevation. Central, heavily moulded, four-centred archway with portcullis groove. Large studded plank doors with strap hinges and wicket door. Flanking square buttresses (C18 - C19) with embattled tops and embattled parapet on moulded corbels between the buttresses. The right hand buttress partly obscures a single light window in a double chamfered surround. East Elevation. Two-light casement windows in double chamfered surrounds, to three stages. Buttresses with off-sets flank the archway. The archway has a two bay tierceron vault springing from clustered triple shafts and enriched capitals, bosses carved with foliage, arms, Tudor roses and heads. The north wall is pierced by two segmental headed openings.

Listing NGR: ST6936063977

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Legacy System number:
32585
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic interest in England, Part 1 Avon,

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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