Gatehouse at Bindon Abbey
GATEHOUSE AT BINDON ABBEY, BINDON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1259827
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Gatehouse at Bindon Abbey
- Statutory Address:
- GATEHOUSE AT BINDON ABBEY, BINDON LANE
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- Date:
- 2002-10-05
- Reference:
- IOE01/06767/35
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1259827
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Gatehouse at Bindon Abbey
- Statutory Address 1:
- GATEHOUSE AT BINDON ABBEY, BINDON LANE
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 AT BINDON ABBEY, BINDON LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wool
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 85305 86747
Details
SY 88NE
5/397 WOOL BINDON LANE
20.11.59 (North Side)
Gatehouse at "Bindon
Abbey"
II*
Gatehouse. Contemporary with the house c1794, and incorporating materials from the ruins of Bindon Abbey. In Gothic style. Gatehouse with central archway and rooms - on two floors, on each side. Stone walls with brick dressings, roof part tiled and part flat - behind parapet with brick battlements. East elevation has central brick Gothic arch with four recessed orders. Brick and stone buttresses each side of this, with pinnacles. One window in each of the side sections - that on south now blocked, that on north with lead lights in iron tracery. West (main) elevation has brick arch similar to that on east. Timber doors with traceried panels. Coats of Arms of Cardinal Thomas Weld above this. In each of the side sections a Gothic arched window with three recessed brick orders - windows have timber tracery. Single-storey stone lean-to at north end, under catslide roof. Internally the central archway has Gothic plaster vaulting. The northern side section has lost its first floor - now open to roof. Ground floor room has large open fireplace - now built up. Southern section retains its first floor. C19 fireplace on ground floor. Picturesque.
RCHM Monument 7.
Listing NGR: SY8530686747
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 108858
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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