Gatehouse and Attached Garden Walls Immediately East of Poxwell House
GATEHOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALLS IMMEDIATELY EAST OF POXWELL HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1153834
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Gatehouse and Attached Garden Walls Immediately East of Poxwell House
- Statutory Address:
- GATEHOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALLS IMMEDIATELY EAST OF POXWELL HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1153834
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Gatehouse and Attached Garden Walls Immediately East of Poxwell House
- Statutory Address 1:
- GATEHOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALLS IMMEDIATELY EAST OF POXWELL HOUSE
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:
- GATEHOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALLS IMMEDIATELY EAST OF POXWELL HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Poxwell
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 74160 84005
Details
SY 78 SW POXWELL
9/59 Gatehouse and attached garden 26.1.56 walls immediately east of Poxwell GV House
II*
Gatehouse hexagonal and attached garden walls. Gatehouse dated 1634, and C17 walls, Brick cladding in stretcher bond to a probable rubble cove. Brick plinth moulding, stone string and cornice moulding. Circular brick buttresses at corners, with a band of glazed bricks at the corners with embossed jewel ornament and initial H, stone finials above. Pyramidal clay tile roof with stone finial at apex. In the east and west walls are archways with moulded jambs and semi circular heads, one with a dated keystone. The upper floor is reached by an external staircase and was two light windows with central mullion to east and west. Fixed iron framed windows, glazed. Attached garden walls, running north and south from gatehouse and returning to the house, C17 or later. Red brick walls with triangular brick coping having moulded dentils. Level course of bricks on the apex. The walls are heavily ramped to the gatehouse and to the corners. (R.C.H.M. Dorset II, p. 262 (3)).
Listing NGR: SY7416084005
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105947
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 262
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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