NOTTINGHAM CASTLE GATEHOUSE, OUTER BRIDGE AND ADJOINING GATEWAY

NOTTINGHAM CASTLE GATEHOUSE, OUTER BRIDGE AND ADJOINING GATEWAY, CASTLE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1247094
Date first listed:: 11-Aug-1952
List Entry Name:: NOTTINGHAM CASTLE GATEHOUSE, OUTER BRIDGE AND ADJOINING GATEWAY
Statutory Address:: NOTTINGHAM CASTLE GATEHOUSE, OUTER BRIDGE AND ADJOINING GATEWAY, CASTLE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1247094
Date first listed:: 11-Aug-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Nov-1995
List Entry Name:: NOTTINGHAM CASTLE GATEHOUSE, OUTER BRIDGE AND ADJOINING GATEWAY
Statutory Address 1:: NOTTINGHAM CASTLE GATEHOUSE, OUTER BRIDGE AND ADJOINING GATEWAY, CASTLE ROAD

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:: NOTTINGHAM CASTLE GATEHOUSE, OUTER BRIDGE AND ADJOINING GATEWAY, CASTLE ROAD

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District:: City of Nottingham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SK 56949 39583

Details

NOTTINGHAM

SK5639NE CASTLE ROAD 646-1/19/125 (West side) 11/08/52 Nottingham Castle gatehouse, outer bridge and adjoining gateway (Formerly Listed as: CASTLE ROAD Castle Gateway)

GV I

Castle gatehouse, outer bridge, and adjoining gateway. 1252-1255, for Henry III. Altered mid C16. Slighted, 1651. Restored and gateway added, 1908. Ashlar, with ashlar dressings and stone slate roofs, with 3 octagonal ashlar stacks. Parapet, string course and cross casement windows, all early C20. Gatehouse has a pointed arched entrance with hood mould, flanked by round towers. 2 windows to left. Over the entrance, a segment-arched panel with the City arms. Panelled double doors. Under the arch, a pointed barrel vault, 2 bays, and pointed arched recesses with shouldered doors. Outer bridge, spanning the moat, has a chamfered pointed arch with hood mould, and 4 chamfered ribs. Smaller round arch, mid C16, replacing the drawbridge. Parapets restored 1908. Rear, mostly 1908, has a pointed arched gateway with a doorway to its left, both C13. Beyond, two C20 windows. To right, small gabled addition. Adjoining gateway, to left, has wrought-iron double gates with square piers and finials, and smaller side gates. Adjoining the gatehouse, a semicircular kiosk. An important survival of the medieval castle. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 225-228; Get to know Nottingham: Hamilton A: Nottingham's Royal Castle: Nottingham: 1980-: 2,9).

Listing NGR: SK5694939583

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Legacy System number:: 455797
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, (1979), 225-228
Hamilton, A, 'Get To Know Nottingham' in Nottinghams Royal Castle, (1980), 2, 9

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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.