Abbey Gatehouse
24, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1262202
- Date first listed:
- 23-Nov-1951
- Statutory Address:
- 24, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1262202
- Date first listed:
- 23-Nov-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-May-1988
- Statutory Address 1:
- 24, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- ABBEY GATEHOUSE, HIGH STREET
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 24, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- ABBEY GATEHOUSE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- North Warwickshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Polesworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 26291 02554
Details
POLESWORTH HIGH STREET SK20SE (South side) 5/90 Abbey Gatehouse and No.24 23/11/51 (Formerly listed as Abbey gatehouse and other remains No.26, No.28, No.30)
GV 11*
Abbey gatehouse, now gatehouse and flat above. Part of a group of attached buildings. Late C14; upper part partly rebuilt C17, Regular coursed sandstone; upper part is timber-framed, of studding with middle rail and brick infill. Plain-tile roof has coped gable parapets with kneelers, and remains of finial to right; C20 brick left end stack, 2 storeys; 3-window range, High ground floor has large wide gateway on right. Pedestrian gateway to left has chamfered jambs and elliptical arch of 2 orders, 2 small round-arched lights of differing sizes above and to left. First floor has partly-leaded 3-light wood muilioned windows. To the rear the gateway has a cambered beam. C14 doorway to right of pedestrian gateway rids chamfered pointed arch and hood mould with return stops; C20 plank door, Two C20 box dormers. Interior has 2-centred arched doorway in mezzanine to left with roll-moulding supporting massive joists. Further 2-centred arched doorway above and late c14 three-bay roof with cambered tie beams, arched braces and king posts with struts to collars and purlin. Renewed rafters. Scheduled as an Ancient Monument. (Buildings of England: Warwickshire: p373; VCH: Warwickshire: Vol IV, p186)
Listing NGR: SK2629102554
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 435600
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1947)
Pevsner, N, Wedgewood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1981), 373
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