TOWN GATE AND CASTLE WALLS

TOWN GATE AND CASTLE WALLS, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1248038
Date first listed:: 07-Oct-1974
List Entry Name:: TOWN GATE AND CASTLE WALLS
Statutory Address:: TOWN GATE AND CASTLE WALLS, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1248038
Date first listed:: 07-Oct-1974
List Entry Name:: TOWN GATE AND CASTLE WALLS
Statutory Address 1:: TOWN GATE AND CASTLE WALLS, HIGH STREET

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:: TOWN GATE AND CASTLE WALLS, HIGH STREET

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

County:: West Sussex
District:: Arun (District Authority)
Parish:: Arundel
National Park:: SOUTH DOWNS
National Grid Reference:: TQ 01769 07227

Details

1. 5401 HIGH STREET (East Side)

Town gate and Castle Walls TQ 0107 1/92

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2. 1850 (Date panel). Upper greensand. Ashlar plinth, coping and dressings: otherwise rock-faced rustication. Lodge adjoining gate is rectangular with 4 smaller rectangular turrets at angles. Pointed archway with machicolation above. Wall has crenellated parapet, with bartizans on outer side and semi-circular bastions on inner side. The Town Gate and Castle Walls were built as a result of the proposal of 1833 whereby the Duke of Norfolk undertook to build a new Town Hall at his own expense, in return for the gift of the north part of the High Street, which he wished to enclose within the Castle grounds [Town Hall Deeds]. The Town Hall was complete by 1338 [Borough Council Archives]. The new London Road was built in 1341 [Arundel Castle Archives], so presumably the upper part of the High Street was appropriated then. The houses on the east side, north of No 34 were pulled down by 1546 [print of Triumphal Arch of flowers on site of present Town Gate at time of Queen Victoria's visit in 1846]. The walls and gatehouse, however, only date from 1850 [date panel].

Nos 18 to 34 (even) with the Castle Walls and Town Gates form a group.

Listing NGR: TQ0175607233

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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.