Gatehouse and Walls Adjoining to Bishopthorpe Palace
GATEHOUSE AND WALLS ADJOINING TO BISHOPTHORPE PALACE, BISHOPTHORPE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1166705
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Gatehouse and Walls Adjoining to Bishopthorpe Palace
- Statutory Address:
- GATEHOUSE AND WALLS ADJOINING TO BISHOPTHORPE PALACE, BISHOPTHORPE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1166705
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Gatehouse and Walls Adjoining to Bishopthorpe Palace
- Statutory Address 1:
- GATEHOUSE AND WALLS ADJOINING TO BISHOPTHORPE PALACE, BISHOPTHORPE ROAD
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:
- GATEHOUSE AND WALLS ADJOINING TO BISHOPTHORPE PALACE, BISHOPTHORPE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- York (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bishopthorpe
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 59632 47780
Details
SE 5847-5947 BISHOPTHORPE BISHOPTHORPE ROAD (east side)
7/26 Gatehouse and walls adjoining to Bishopthorpe Palace
GV II*
Gatehouse and walls adjoining. 1763-5 by Thomas Atkinson for Archbishop Drummond incorporating clock of 1744 with turret of 1895 and re-roofing of 1978. Magnesian limestone with brown stone, lead roof and oak gates. Gatehouse square on plan. Gothick style. 2 storeys single bay. Angle buttresses with off-sets surmounted by pinnacles. Segmental-headed archway with continuous moulding to architrave and coat of arms at head under ogee- headed hood-mould. Panelled gates with Perpendicular enrichment. First floor: 4-light window with intersecting tracery under hood-mould. Clock in gable. Embattled pediment with modillion cornice. Concealed hipped roof, surmounted by open turret with conical roof and weathercock. Similar facade to rear. Embattled walls to either side with 4-centred arched openings and buttresses with off-sets surmounted by pinnacles. Eric A Gee, Bishopthorpe Palace. An Architectural History, 1983, pp 40-41.
Listing NGR: SE5963247780
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 325942
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gee, E A, Bishopthorpe Palace An Architectural History, (1983), 40-41
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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