Gatehouse to Kimbolton School
GATEHOUSE TO KIMBOLTON SCHOOL, CASTLE GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1221020
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Gatehouse to Kimbolton School
- Statutory Address:
- GATEHOUSE TO KIMBOLTON SCHOOL, CASTLE GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1221020
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Gatehouse to Kimbolton School
- Statutory Address 1:
- GATEHOUSE TO KIMBOLTON SCHOOL, CASTLE GREEN
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:
- GATEHOUSE TO KIMBOLTON SCHOOL, CASTLE GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kimbolton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 10009 67670
Details
KIMBOLTON CASTLE GREEN TL 095675 (EAST SIDE) 6/6 GATEHOUSE TO 24.10.51 KIMBOLTON SCHOOL GV I 1764-66 by Robert Adam for fourth Duke of Manchester. Gatehouse linked to two flanking pavilions by single storey ranges. Red brick with Ketton stone ashlar. Re-roofed in 1858 with slate. Symmetrical east and west elevations. Central semi-circular headed archway with rusticated surround between two hung sashes with glazing bars and Gibbs surrounds and divided by two engaged Doric columns and two pilasters. Doric frieze with mutules above triglyphs alternating with plain metopes and with guttae below. Moulded cornice surmounted by balustrade, sealed above archway. Panelled double doors with tradesman's door set in one, having iron door knocker in form of lion's head mask. Slightly recessed link ranges of three semi-circular headed bays divided by pilasters. One hung sash with glazing bars to each bay. Moulded cornice surmounted by parapet at lower level than gatehouse and pavilions. Gable end pediments to pavilions. Angle pilasters with similar Doric entablature flank semi- circular headed bay with round headed niche and rusticated surround. Interior. Archway has two original doors with six raised and fielded panels to each. The Castle brewhouse was in the north part of the Gatehouse. One brick vat is visible in the north pavilion. The laundry was in the south part. A rainwater head dated 1858 to an internal down pipe in the north part is probably the date for the re-roofing of the gatehouse. The C18 King post roof trusses are extant. RCHM (Hunts) p171. Pevsner: Building of England (Beds, Hunts and Peterborough), p281. VCH (Hunts), Vol. III. P.H. Burkett: "Kimbolton Castle" (published by Kimbolton School).
Listing NGR: TL1000967670
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 394697
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Huntingdonshire, (1926), 171
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Huntingdon, (1932)
Burkett, PH, Kimbolton Castle, ()
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough, (1968), 281
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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