Abbey Gatehouse With Post Office
ABBEY GATEHOUSE WITH POST OFFICE, THE SQUARE
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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:
- ABBEY GATEHOUSE WITH POST OFFICE, THE SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- 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
GV
I
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 240400
- 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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