GATEHOUSE AND GATEHOUSE COTTAGE ADJOINING

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1173887
Date first listed:: 22-May-1969
List Entry Name:: GATEHOUSE AND GATEHOUSE COTTAGE ADJOINING
Statutory Address:: GATEHOUSE AND GATEHOUSE COTTAGE ADJOINING

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1173887
Date first listed:: 22-May-1969
List Entry Name:: GATEHOUSE AND GATEHOUSE COTTAGE ADJOINING
Statutory Address 1:: GATEHOUSE AND GATEHOUSE COTTAGE ADJOINING

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:: GATEHOUSE AND GATEHOUSE COTTAGE ADJOINING

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Selworthy
National Park:: EXMOOR
National Grid Reference:: SS 91063 46241

Details

SS9146 SELWORTHY CP HOLNICOTE 26/103 Gatehouse and Gatehouse Cottage adjoining (formerly listed as 2 separate items) 22.5.69

- II* Gatehouse to demolished house to south; C15, altered late C19. Gatehouse Cottage; C16-C17, altered C19 and C20. Gatehouse: local stone random rubble part rendered, timber framed upper storey hung with wooden shingles on south front, renewed timber lintels, curved wooden jambs, slate roof, louvred ventilation cap. Plan: single cell, stairs and cottage abutting to west, set over gateway with double doors on north front. Cinquefoil headed 2-light mullioned window, much restored with external glazing on south front, similar to north, large ribbed and framed studded double doors with wicket. Chamfered arched stone doorway to stair on west inner wall, C19 cinqufoil headed wooden window to right. Interior: stone stairs to upper room containing 3 pairs of long tenon jointed cruck trusses, 2 purlins on either side, renewed cambered collars, small fireplace with chamfered stone lintel, no chimney surviving, peaked door frame to cottage. Cottage: rendered over rubble, slate roof, circular roughcast stone stack rising from below ridge to right, another square stone stack in similar position to rear, external stack left gable end. Plan: 3 cell and cross passage abutting gatehouse right. Two storeys, north front 4 bays, C19 casements, 2 below eaves left, 2 rising through eaves right, ground floor two 3-light casements, entry end bay right, half glazed many-paned door, also lit right return ground floor. Interior: room adjoining gatehouse with cambered lateral beams, blocked fireplaces either side of wall, central room with fine heavy ovolo moulded beams, steeply chamfered beams with step and runout stops to kitchen beyond cross passage, chamfered lintel to fireplace with window inserted into probable oven space. Five pairs of heavy jointed cruck truss with cambered collars and steeply chamfered wall plate. Built after the gatehouse, the exact evolution of the cottage is not clear. (Photograph in NMR; VAG report, unpublished SRO, September 1979).

Listing NGR: SS9106346241

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Legacy System number:: 265517
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'Vernacular Architecture Group Report' in September, (1979)

Legal

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