Gatehouse About 25 Yards North-north-west of Butthouse
GATEHOUSE ABOUT 25 YARDS NORTH-NORTH-WEST OF BUTTHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1301690
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Gatehouse About 25 Yards North-north-west of Butthouse
- Statutory Address:
- GATEHOUSE ABOUT 25 YARDS NORTH-NORTH-WEST OF BUTTHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1301690
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Gatehouse About 25 Yards North-north-west of Butthouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- GATEHOUSE ABOUT 25 YARDS NORTH-NORTH-WEST OF BUTTHOUSE
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 ABOUT 25 YARDS NORTH-NORTH-WEST OF BUTTHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- King's Pyon
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 44176 48829
Details
KING'S PYON CP - SO 44 NW
4/45 Gatehouse about 25 yards north-north-west of 20.2.53 Butthouse
GV II*
K 16 Gatehouse. GF 32 on panel, with later alterations. Sandstone rubble plinth with timber-frame, plaster infill and tiled cross-gabled roof. Square plan aligned north-north-west/south-south-east. Two storeys. North elevation has central blocked 2-light mullioned and transomed window in jettied first storey. Beneath the window but above bressummer are two round-headed panels with acanthus decoration, cartouches and strawberry motifs. Left panel has date. Above the window are two quadrant braces with spurs. Window and panels are flanked by two pairs of lozenge shaped panels. Scrolled bargeboards with dragons over carved brackets. Ground floor has wide nail-studded low door within which is a subsidiary segmentally headed door. South elevation has similar details but with shuttered moulded first floor oriel supported by three shaped brackets. Mid-C20 door. Bressummer has attached board with scrolls and dragons, probably a re-used bargeboard. Nesting ledge above oriel. Corner posts of ground floor have remains of rope designs. Above are dragon beams. Interior has lamb's tongue run-out chamfer stops on dragon beams. (BoE, p 297; RCHM, Vol III, p 87-8).
Listing NGR: SO4417648829
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 149726
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 87-8
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 297
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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