Priory Gatehouse and Attached Rubble Wall

PRIORY GATEHOUSE AND ATTACHED RUBBLE WALL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1218714
Date first listed:
12-Nov-1954
List Entry Name:
Priory Gatehouse and Attached Rubble Wall
Statutory Address:
PRIORY GATEHOUSE AND ATTACHED RUBBLE WALL
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1218714
Date first listed:
12-Nov-1954
List Entry Name:
Priory Gatehouse and Attached Rubble Wall
Statutory Address 1:
PRIORY GATEHOUSE AND ATTACHED RUBBLE WALL

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
PRIORY GATEHOUSE AND ATTACHED RUBBLE WALL

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

District:
Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Bromfield
National Grid Reference:
SO 48114 76834

Details

BROMFIELD

SO47NE Priory Gatehouse and attached rubble 825-1/4/32 wall 12/11/54

GV II*

Gatehouse of Benedictine Priory. C12 with C17 upper storey. Rubble; timber-frame with brick; C20 plain tile roof; brick composite ridge stack. 2-storeys; 3-window range: central canted oriel with mullion and transom metal lattice lights, under small gable with simple finial; flanked by two 2-light mullions with metal lattice glazing. Deep central arch with drip-course over, flanked by 2 plain buttresses. Rear: pair of 2-light oak mullion windows with metal lattice glazing, over central opening; flanked by similar lights, that to left without glazing. Central opening under oak lintel, flanked by wide buttresses; flanked by restored oak and sandstone mullions under shouldered drip-course, and to right, early C20 plank door with wide lattice light. Central passage has plastered ceiling, plank doors with strap hinges. Left returned side has 2-light mullion window with metal lattice glazing, to ground floor. Right returned side: 1st floor has lath and plaster infill; three 2-light mullions, one with simple hood on consoles. C20 barge-boards and spike-finials.

Listing NGR: SO4810676822

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
389656
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.

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