Inner Gatehouse at Place Farm

INNER GATEHOUSE AT PLACE FARM, COURT STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1146019
Date first listed:
06-Jan-1966
List Entry Name:
Inner Gatehouse at Place Farm
Statutory Address:
INNER GATEHOUSE AT PLACE FARM, COURT STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1146019
Date first listed:
06-Jan-1966
List Entry Name:
Inner Gatehouse at Place Farm
Statutory Address 1:
INNER GATEHOUSE AT PLACE FARM, COURT STREET

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
INNER GATEHOUSE AT PLACE FARM, COURT STREET

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

District:
Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Tisbury
National Grid Reference:
ST 95111 29816

Details

TISBURY COURT STREET ST 92 NE (north side)

5/210 Inner Gatehouse at Place Farm 6.1.66 GV I

Inner gatehouse, attached to south end of farmhouse (q.v.). Late C15. Dressed limestone, tiled roof with coped verges and brick stack to east gable. Two-storey, 2-window. South side has double cyma moulded Tudor-arched entrance with heavy planked door with strap hinges, diagonal buttress to right and buttress with offset to left, first floor has 2-light C15 window with arched lights. Left return has external dog-leg stone stairs to planked door of upper room, rising from pointed arch with hoodmould within through entry. Rear has double chamfered archway to entry with 2- light C15 window with arched lights to upper room, attached to farmhouse at left side. Interior of entry has heavy chamfered beams with stepped stops, pointed chamfered doorway with planked door to ground floor to east of entry. Interior of upper room said to have C19 fireplace surround and grate. Fine inner gatehouse at the former grange of the Abbess of Shaftesbury.

Listing NGR: ST9510829813

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
320999
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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