The Gate House
The Gate House, Picklescott, SY6 6NR
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1307348
- Date first listed:
- 07-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Gate House
- Statutory Address:
- The Gate House, Picklescott, SY6 6NR
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1307348
- Date first listed:
- 07-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Gate House
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Gate House, Picklescott, SY6 6NR
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:
- The Gate House, Picklescott, SY6 6NR
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Smethcott
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 43557 99454
Details
SO 49 NW
3/91
SMETHCOTT C.P.
PICKLESCOTT
The Gate House
GV
II
Cottage, latterly inn. Early to mid C18, possibly incorporating an earlier core. Painted sandstone rubble with brick dressings; plain tile roof. Three-unit baffle-entry plan. One storey and attic. Dentil brick eaves cornice and three gabled semi-dormers with two-light wooden casements; brick ridge stack off-centre to right and integral brick end stack to left. Three window front; two-light segmental-headed wooden casements. Half-glazed door between first and second windows off-centre to right with C19 gabled wooden porch. Pair of conically-roofed bread ovens projecting from left-hand gable end. Interior: central ground-floor room has chamfered spine beam, plain joists, and blocked fireplace with lintel.
This cottage was a wheelwright's shop in the later C19 and is also said to have been an alehouse known as the Gate Hangs Well, possibly the alehouse first recorded in 1616. The Gate House occupies a prominent position in the centre of Picklescott. Included
for group value.
Listing NGR: SO4355799454
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 259632
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Elmington, C R, The Victoria History of the County of Shropshire, (1989), 149
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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