Ford Castle East Gateway, East Forecourt Wall and Handyman's Cottage
FORD CASTLE EAST GATEWAY, EAST FORECOURT WALL AND HANDYMAN'S COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1154087
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Ford Castle East Gateway, East Forecourt Wall and Handyman's Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- FORD CASTLE EAST GATEWAY, EAST FORECOURT WALL AND HANDYMAN'S COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1154087
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Ford Castle East Gateway, East Forecourt Wall and Handyman's Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORD CASTLE EAST GATEWAY, EAST FORECOURT WALL AND HANDYMAN'S COTTAGE
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:
- FORD CASTLE EAST GATEWAY, EAST FORECOURT WALL AND HANDYMAN'S COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ford
- National Grid Reference:
- NT 94484 37536
Details
FORD FORD CASTLE NT 9437 17/90 East Gateway, East Forecourt Wall and Handyman's Cottage GV II*
Gateway, forecourt walls and cottage. 1791 by J. Nisbet for Sir John Hussey Deleval. Cottage added c.1862 probably by David Bryce. Ashlar. Gothick style.
East wall 7 bays. Central pointed carriage arch with wood double gates and imitation portcullis; roll-moulded surround with square imposts; cornice with 2 rows of alternating dentils, like a billet moulding.
Large flanking semi-circular towers each with 3 arched niches on ground floor, strings with intersecting pointed arches. 3 roundels on 1st floors, 2 of them bearing quatrefoils; left tower has dovecote in centre roundel, right tower a clock. Friezes of hanging pointed arches. 3 pierced quatrefoils in each parapet.
Sections of castellated wall flank the towers,each with 2 cruciform slits. Square end towers with arched niches.
To rear and also occupying left end tower, the handyman's cottage: 2 storeys, 3 bays. Irregular and picturesque. Right bay has a large combined porch and chimney stack. Centre bay has 8 steps up to door, 16-pane sash on ground floor, 2-light mullioned window above. Left bay has 2-light window on ground floor and small 4-pane sash in gabled half-dormer above.
Stable block, now garages,attached to rear are not of special interest.
Listing NGR: NT9448437536
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 238057
- 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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