Outer Gatehouse Ruins and Length of Precinct Wall Running East to Abbey Gate Cottages
OUTER GATEHOUSE RUINS AND LENGTH OF PRECINCT WALL RUNNING EAST TO ABBEY GATE COTTAGES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1156673
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Outer Gatehouse Ruins and Length of Precinct Wall Running East to Abbey Gate Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- OUTER GATEHOUSE RUINS AND LENGTH OF PRECINCT WALL RUNNING EAST TO ABBEY GATE COTTAGES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1156673
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Outer Gatehouse Ruins and Length of Precinct Wall Running East to Abbey Gate Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- OUTER GATEHOUSE RUINS AND LENGTH OF PRECINCT WALL RUNNING EAST TO ABBEY GATE COTTAGES
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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:
- OUTER GATEHOUSE RUINS AND LENGTH OF PRECINCT WALL RUNNING EAST TO ABBEY GATE COTTAGES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- New Forest (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Beaulieu
- National Park:
- New Forest
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 38768 02367
Details
BEAULIEU BEAULIEU MANOR ESTATE Sir 3802/3902 17/21 Outer Gatehouse ruins and length of precinct wall running east to 8.10.59 Abbey Gate Cottages GV II* Outer gatehouse, ruins and part of precinct wall. C13, gatehouse rebuilt C19. Rubble stone, stone dressing, old plain tile roof. Outer gatehouse of archway with room over in tall gabled roof with clock tower, lean-to room on one side. l½ storey, 1 bay cottage on other, with wall running from this for some 50m and beside it inside precinct remains of Abbey Mill. Gatehouse has central late C13 segmental-head archway. Over rebuilt gables with 3 loopholes to outer gable and offset, 2 rectangular openings and pointed lancet. On roof C19 square-plan clock tower of tile hanging. Clock-faces and louvred openings under hipped roof. On one side lean-to with rectangular window either end and gabled dormer on side. Above lean-to on side of main part C19 2-shafted stone stack. On other side cottage part with rectangular window on either end, and door on inner end. Side has gabled dormer on hip of roof and C19 2-shafted stack beside. From below this starts wall some 3m high with gabled coping of inclined stones. Wall runs from corner of gatehouse 40m east, then turns north-east to run into corner of Abbey Gate Cottage (qv). For mill remains see VCH; Vol IV; 1991; p.632.
Listing NGR: SU3872802453
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 143281
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, The Victoria History of the County of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, (1911), 632
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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