ABBEY GATEHOUSE WITH POST OFFICE

ABBEY GATEHOUSE WITH POST OFFICE, THE SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1153918
Date first listed:: 18-Jun-1986
List Entry Name:: ABBEY GATEHOUSE WITH POST OFFICE
Statutory Address:: ABBEY GATEHOUSE WITH POST OFFICE, THE SQUARE

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Date:: 2002-09-25
Reference:: IOE01/08579/19
Rights:: © Mr Bob Cottrell. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1153918
Date first listed:: 18-Jun-1986
List Entry Name:: ABBEY GATEHOUSE WITH POST OFFICE
Statutory Address 1:: ABBEY GATEHOUSE WITH POST OFFICE, THE SQUARE

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:: ABBEY GATEHOUSE WITH POST OFFICE, THE SQUARE

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District:: Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Blanchland
National Grid Reference:: NY 96569 50369

Details

NY 9650, 24/33

BLANCHLAND, THE SQUARE Blanchland, Abbey Gatehouse with Post Office

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Abbey Gatehouse. C15, incorporating earlier fabric, remodelled c.1753. Rubble with dressings; flat lead roof. South elevation: 2 storeys, 2 wide bays. Right bay has segmental-arched gateway, left bay has vertical-panelled door with overlight in hollow-chamfered surround with hoodmould (jambs incised T/M 17/24) flanked by small-paned shop windows under ogee arches with hoodmoulds; right window has integral V. R. letter box. 1st floor has 6-light window with king mullion and 2-light window to right, both with hoodmoulds. Chamfered string below moulded embattled parapet. Right return shows C19 external stair to boarded door in chamfered elliptical-arched surround (1753 incised on jamb); garderobe projection on right with chamfered loop. Rear (external) elevation shows similar gateway arch with hollow chamfer; small sash windows above with hollow-chamfered surrounds and hoodmoulds. INTERIOR: Gate passage and adjacent chamber (Post Office) both barrel-vaulted. 1st floor room in west bay is now part of adjacent house (q.v.). 1st floor of gatehouse, formerly a single large chamber, may have been a courtroom; chamfered doorway to garderobe.

Listing NGR: NY9656750368

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Legacy System number:: 240400
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.