HODSOCK PRIORY GATEHOUSE AND BRIDGE

HODSOCK PRIORY GATEHOUSE AND BRIDGE, HODSOCK PRIORY LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1187689
Date first listed:: 04-Jan-1952
List Entry Name:: HODSOCK PRIORY GATEHOUSE AND BRIDGE
Statutory Address:: HODSOCK PRIORY GATEHOUSE AND BRIDGE, HODSOCK PRIORY LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1187689
Date first listed:: 04-Jan-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 12-Apr-1985
List Entry Name:: HODSOCK PRIORY GATEHOUSE AND BRIDGE
Statutory Address 1:: HODSOCK PRIORY GATEHOUSE AND BRIDGE, HODSOCK PRIORY LANE

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:: HODSOCK PRIORY GATEHOUSE AND BRIDGE, HODSOCK PRIORY LANE

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

County:: Nottinghamshire
District:: Bassetlaw (District Authority)
Parish:: Hodsock
National Grid Reference:: SK 61140 85462

Details

SK 68 NW HODSOCK HODSOCK PRIORY LANE (West side)

3/79 Hodsock Priory Gatehouse and Bridge 4.1.52 (Formerly listed as Gatehouse to Hodsock Priory)

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Gatehouse and bridge. Gatehouse early C16. Red brick with ashlar dressings and some blue brick diaper. East side of 3 storeys plus basement, 3 bays, flanked by single bay protruding, slightly hiqher, square turrets, with ashlar quoins. To the rear are 2 embattled octagonal turrets. Tiled roof with single red brick stack to the left. Stone coped parapets. A stone band runs under the parapets, with a slightly damaged Lombard frieze below to the 3 bay centre. The right side is on a chamfered ashlar plinth. The basement left has a later single casement with 3 arched lights and lead panes under a flat head with ashlar quoin surround. Above, central double chamfered ashlar arch with double wooden gate. Flanked by single. casements, each with 2 arched lights with lead panes under flat heads and with irregular flush ashlar quoin surrounds. There are 2 similar lights and surrounds above, the right being fixed, and 2 similar fixed lights and surrounds on the top floor with a single central larger, similar, 3 light fixed light and similar surround. The turrets each have 5 small rectangular openings. The west side of 3 storeys, 3 bays, is flanked by single protruding turrets with stone coped embattled parapets. The parapet to the central 3 bays is coped with stone. Running below are 2 raised bands and a Lombard frieze as on the east front. Again, a central archway, flanked by similar, single, 2 light casements, above 2 similar casements and on the top floor a single, off-centre, casement. The right turret is set on an ashlar plinth and is narrower than the left. There are 6 small rectangular openings and 2 arched fixed lights with lead panes, one with ashlar arch over, both with red brick hood moulds. The left turret is on a stone plinth and has an arched doorway, 3 steps up, under a chamfered ashlar arch and with wooden door. There are 8 rectangular openings, a single lozenge shaped quatrefoil opening and 2 arched fixed lights. The lower light under segmental arch with red brick hood mould, the other under similar segmental ashlar arch and with ashlar surround. The north and south sides have irregular facades. Interior: in each western turret is a single newel staircase, one with stone treads, the other with wooden treads. These lead to the second floor room which extends across the length of the building and has a Queen-strut roof, with remains of decorative plaster work to some walls. Includes single fireplace on the west side with cable moulding over, which extends around the dado. On the east wall are decorative vertical strips, linked at lintel level by arched bands of cable moulding. There is a further fireplace on the south wall. The central east window has stained glass inscribed "Glory To God On Earth Peace, Goodwill Toward Men". Bridge over dry moat. C16 with C18 and C19 restoration. Ashlar, dressed coursed rubble and red brick. Chamfered ashlar base, 3 red brick arches with brick and dressed coursed rubble over. Ashlar coped parapet with evidence of removed railings.

Listing NGR: SK6114185459

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Legacy System number:: 241433
Legacy System:: LBS

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