Outer Gatehouse at Place Farm
OUTER GATEHOUSE AT PLACE FARM, COURT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1300237
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jan-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Outer Gatehouse at Place Farm
- Statutory Address:
- OUTER GATEHOUSE AT PLACE FARM, COURT STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1300237
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jan-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Outer Gatehouse at Place Farm
- Statutory Address 1:
- OUTER GATEHOUSE AT PLACE FARM, COURT STREET
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:
- OUTER GATEHOUSE AT PLACE FARM, COURT STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Tisbury
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 95142 29787
Details
TISBURY COURT STREET ST 92 NE (north side)
5/211 Outer Gatehouse at Place Farm 6.1.66 GV I
Outer gatehouse to former monastic grange. C15. Dressed limestone, tiled roof with coped verges and small octagonal stone stack to east gable. Two-storey, 2-window. Front facing road has ovolo-moulded pointed arch with cast-iron gate to left for pedestrian access, to right is large moulded and chamfered Tudor- arched opening for carts, five buttresses with offsets and increasing in height from left to right attached to front of gatehouse and to stepped wall to left. First floor has two C15 two-light windows with Perpendicular tracery. Attached to right is stepped wall with 2 buttresses with offsets. Left return has dog leg stone steps up to planked door of upper room. Right return has buttress with offsets and pointed chamfered doorway leading to cart entry. Rear facing inner gatehouse (q.v.) has double chamfered pointed archways, the larger to left for carts, first floor has two 2-light C15 windows with arched lights, buttress to right with offset, pilaster buttress to left. Interior of cart entry has depressed pointed archway in wall between two entries, deep chamfered beams with stepped stops. Fine surviving example of entrance to monastic grange of the Abbess of Shaftesbury. Ancient Monument, Wiltshire, No 242.
Listing NGR: ST9513229783
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 321000
- 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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