The Gate House
THE GATE HOUSE, MEREVALE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1185498
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Gate House
- Statutory Address:
- THE GATE HOUSE, MEREVALE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1185498
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Gate House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GATE HOUSE, MEREVALE LANE
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:
- THE GATE HOUSE, MEREVALE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- North Warwickshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Merevale
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 29005 97700
Details
MEREVALE MEREVALE LANE SP29NE (South-east side) 1/128 The Gate House GV II House, probably originally a rectory. 1848-49 by Henry Clutton for William Stratford Dugdale of Merevale Hall. Regular coursed rough-faced sandstone with splay plinth: plain-tile roofs have moulded coped gable parapets with stepped and moulded kneelers. Stone end and ridge stacks have square shafts with continuous cornices. U-plan, with wings to rear. 2 storeys; 3-window range. bauble-chamfered stone mullioned windows with horizontal glazing bar throughout. Main front to garden has slightly-projecting gabled cross-wing on left. Ground floor is treated as a bay window, of 1-3-1 lights to front, and single lights to return sides. Splay string course. Window above of 4 stepped lights, the centre 2 lights having a transom, with hood mould. Second bay has a 4-light window with hood mould and segmental relieving arch; 3-light window above. 2-storey canted bay on right, of 1-2-1 lights, has steep pyramidal roof with finial. Ground floor windows have transoms throughout. Right return side has external stack to first floor. Lower wing to right is set back. Gabled porch in angle projects a little beyond the left range. 9-panelled Tudor-arched door in stop. Chamfered surround with hood mould. 2-light staircase window to right has central transom and glazing bars. 3-light window has hood mould and relieving arch; dormer above has 2-light window. One-storey range beyond has 3-light and one-light windows, and a large external stack with splay and 2 shafts. Interior not insnected. (Buildings of England: Warwickshire: p353; Mark Girouard: The Victorian Country House, p67)
Listing NGR: SP2900797699
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 309221
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Girouard, M, The Victorian Country House, (1971), 67
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 353
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 42 Warwickshire,
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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