Leez Priory Inner Gate House (That Part in Dunmow RD)
LEEZ PRIORY INNER GATE HOUSE (THAT PART IN DUNMOW RD), LEEZ LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1322295
- Date first listed:
- 06-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Leez Priory Inner Gate House (That Part in Dunmow RD)
- Statutory Address:
- LEEZ PRIORY INNER GATE HOUSE (THAT PART IN DUNMOW RD), LEEZ LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1322295
- Date first listed:
- 06-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Leez Priory Inner Gate House (That Part in Dunmow RD)
- Statutory Address 1:
- LEEZ PRIORY INNER GATE HOUSE (THAT PART IN DUNMOW RD), LEEZ LANE
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:
- LEEZ PRIORY INNER GATE HOUSE (THAT PART IN DUNMOW RD), LEEZ LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Uttlesford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Felsted
- National Grid Reference:
- TL7012118567
Details
TL 71 NW
8/183
FELSTED
LEEZ LANE
Leez Priory (that part in Dunmow Rd)
G.V.
I
Inner Gate House, C16. Red brick built with black end patterning.
Stone dressings to windows, parapets and crenellations and a stone Coat of Arms
above Coutyard archway. Crenellated, octagonal turrets to each corner, of 3
storeys, the South/East with origional solid tread staircase. The East face
turrets are diapered and panelled in 3 stages, each with a band of trefoil
moulded bricks. The block between the turrets, above the archway, is of two
storeys, each comprising a large room, with stone mullion and transomed windows
to East and West faces. The block has gabled parapets of brick and stone panels
with a stone final. There is a moulded stone archway to West face and a
moulded brick archway to East face. The stone arch with fleur-de-lys and rose
decoration spandrels, the brick with shields. There are 4 fine decorated,
moulded red brick octagonal chimney stacks, 3 recessed arches and other remains
of former buildings on this site, after 1536, when the priory of the
Augustinian Canons was dissolved and mainly demolished. Restorations were
carried out early C20 by Chancellor. The boundary of Felsted in Uttlesford and
Great and Little Leighs in Chemlsford runs through the site. The stone
hexagonal conduit, in the Gothic style, is listed Grade II, TL 71 NW 2/149 in
Great and Little Leighs, as are the 2 barns situated to the south of Leez
Priory, built of C16 red brick with red plain tile roofs and some original
windows, the east barn of 5 bays and the west barn of 6 bays, TL 71 NW 2/152.
The major part of the Inner Gate House lies Felsted. RCHM 2.
Listing NGR: TL7012118567
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 122632
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex North West, (1916)
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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