Westbar
WESTBAR, WESTGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1287172
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Westbar
- Statutory Address:
- WESTBAR, WESTGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1287172
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Westbar
- Statutory Address 1:
- WESTBAR, WESTGATE
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:
- WESTBAR, WESTGATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Aldringham cum Thorpe
- National Grid Reference:
- TM4723059767
Details
TM45NE ALDRINGHAM WESTGATE, Thorpeness
CUM THORPE
7/10014 Westbar
GV II
Gatehouse with accommodation and water tank. 1929 by William Gilmour Wilson as part of Thorpeness village development for Glencairn Stuart Ogilvie. Concrete, faced with brick and timber framing. Plaintile roofs. Medieval military style. Symmetrical composition comprising 6-storey gatehouse tower flanked right and left by dwellings of 3 storeys and dormer attic. Tower has depressed archway in centre at second-floor level, with suspended timber-framed accommodation below, leaving a square-headed coved carriageway beneath. Clasping corner buttresses rise from base to parapet. Fenestration mainly of timber casements with leaded panes to east side, metal casements to west side. Upper 2 stages of tower depend on ecclesiastical precursors: 2 pairs of square-headed lancets to each face with 2 2-light Y-tracery belfry windows above. These elements separated by brick pilaster strips. Crenellated parapet. To either side of tower are holiday flats, the ground floors faced with brick, upper floors timber framed. Mullioned timber windows and gabled roofs. One tall studio light in flat-topped dormers to each side of west face.
INTERIOR. Not inspected; but upper 2 storeys of tower contains water tank. Part of a good group and one of the principal buildings in this resort village.
Historical Note: The owner of Thorpeness Estate, Glencairn Stuart Ogilvie, himself conceiving the project, designed and sketched out the whole village and commissioned the architects involved.
Listing NGR: TM4723059767
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 403091
- 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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