Priory Gatehouse
PRIORY GATEHOUSE, ABBEYGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1195946
- Date first listed:
- 03-Apr-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Priory Gatehouse
- Statutory Address:
- PRIORY GATEHOUSE, ABBEYGATE
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- Date:
- 2002-04-11
- Reference:
- IOE01/06660/21
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1195946
- Date first listed:
- 03-Apr-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 01-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Priory Gatehouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRIORY GATEHOUSE, ABBEYGATE
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:
- PRIORY GATEHOUSE, ABBEYGATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Thetford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 86575 83524
Details
THETFORD
TL8683 ABBEYGATE 617-1/5/3 (North West side) 03/04/51 Priory Gatehouse (Formerly Listed as: Remains of Cluniac Priory, Abbey House grounds)
I
Priory gatehouse. C14. Cut flint with ashlar dressings. No roof. 3 storeys. North and south faces similar, except north has diagonal corner buttresses while south has polygonal towers. Central segmental arch with chamfers north and south. First floor with one 3-light cusped window and second floor with one 2-light cusped window, both under square heads. Repeated to north. South-east tower with winder staircase. First floor has fireplace in west wall and a garderobe in south-west tower, with a vaulted ceiling. Fireplace to second floor also. (Raby F J E: Thetford Priory: London: 1979-: 9).
Listing NGR: TL8657583524
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 384665
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Raby, F J E, Rigold, S E, Thetford Priory, (1979), 9
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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