GATEWAY ON DRIVE ENTRANCE TO CLOVELLY COURT ESTATE (ALSO KNOWN AS ROUND TOWERS)

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1165469
Date first listed:: 19-Jun-1989
List Entry Name:: GATEWAY ON DRIVE ENTRANCE TO CLOVELLY COURT ESTATE (ALSO KNOWN AS ROUND TOWERS)
Statutory Address:: GATEWAY ON DRIVE ENTRANCE TO CLOVELLY COURT ESTATE (ALSO KNOWN AS ROUND TOWERS)

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1165469
Date first listed:: 19-Jun-1989
Date of most recent amendment:: 25-Sep-1990
List Entry Name:: GATEWAY ON DRIVE ENTRANCE TO CLOVELLY COURT ESTATE (ALSO KNOWN AS ROUND TOWERS)
Statutory Address 1:: GATEWAY ON DRIVE ENTRANCE TO CLOVELLY COURT ESTATE (ALSO KNOWN AS ROUND TOWERS)

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:: GATEWAY ON DRIVE ENTRANCE TO CLOVELLY COURT ESTATE (ALSO KNOWN AS ROUND TOWERS)

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: Torridge (District Authority)
Parish:: Clovelly
National Grid Reference:: SS 30485 24699

Details

CLOVELLY CLOVELLY COURT PARK

SS 3124/90 Gateway on drive entrance to Clovelly Court Estate

The address shall be amended to read

SS 32 SW CLOVELLY CLOVELLY COURT PARK

5/90 Gateway on drive entrance to Clovelly Court Estate (also known as Round Towers)

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CLOVELLY CLOVELLY COURT PARK SS 32 SW

5/90 Gateway on drive entrance to Clovelly Court Estate

- II

Gateway. Early C19. Coursed stone rubble with crenellated parapets. Now roofless. Plan: a pair of circulr 2-storeyed towers, each a 1-room plan lodge on either side of the drive and linked by an arch over the carriageway. Designed in the form of a shan castle. Exterior: 2 storeyed circular towers with battlements and a 4-centred arch between. The front elevation of each tower has a pointed-arch window with a blind head and reused granite jambs. The gate is late C19, executed in wood. Interior: the floors and roof have been removed. The right-hand tower has a fireplace with a brick surround. Part of the landscaped park created by Sir James Hamlyn in the late C18/early C19 around Clovelly Court. Source: W. G. Hoskins Devon. P370.

Listing NGR: SS3048524699

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 91159
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Hoskins, W G, 'A New Survey of England' in Devon, (1954), 370

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.