North Gatehouse and Walls Attached Enclosing Castle; Gate House Formerly Listed As 'porter's Lodge'
NORTH GATEHOUSE AND WALLS ATTACHED ENCLOSING CASTLE; GATE HOUSE FORMERLY LISTED AS 'PORTER'S LODGE'
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1338626
- Date first listed:
- 14-Sept-1966
- List Entry Name:
- North Gatehouse and Walls Attached Enclosing Castle; Gate House Formerly Listed As 'porter's Lodge'
- Statutory Address:
- NORTH GATEHOUSE AND WALLS ATTACHED ENCLOSING CASTLE; GATE HOUSE FORMERLY LISTED AS 'PORTER'S LODGE'
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1338626
- Date first listed:
- 14-Sept-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- North Gatehouse and Walls Attached Enclosing Castle; Gate House Formerly Listed As 'porter's Lodge'
- Statutory Address 1:
- NORTH GATEHOUSE AND WALLS ATTACHED ENCLOSING CASTLE; GATE HOUSE FORMERLY LISTED AS 'PORTER'S LODGE'
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:
- NORTH GATEHOUSE AND WALLS ATTACHED ENCLOSING CASTLE; GATE HOUSE FORMERLY LISTED AS 'PORTER'S LODGE'
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Raby with Keverstone
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 12890 21841
Details
RABY WITH KEVERSTONE RABY PARK NZ 1221 16/83 North gatehouse 14/9/66 and walls attached enclosing castle; gatehouse formerly listed as 'Porter's Lodge'
GV I
Castle gatehouse and castle wall. C14, with C18 alterations by J. Carr. Coursed sandstone blocks with ashlar dressings; wall of similar materials. 2-storey gatehouse. Wide segmental portcullis arch under corbelled balcony; 2-light window above with cusped ogee heads; machicolations below top parapet with crenellations. Flanking turrets,narrower at left, crenellated, with square-headed chamfered surrounds to door at left, and to 3-foil-headed window at right. Machicolated returns to turrets. Life-size figures on battlements resited from east barbican, now demolished, and from guard tower. Flanking walls stepped down, with blind quatrefoil decoration, to lower turrets. From these the encircling wall, reduced to c. one metre above level of castle yard, tops retaining wall along inner edge of moat, with square projections, flat buttresses, battered lower courses on south,and segmental-arched entrance from moat on south-east.
Listing NGR: NZ1288521834
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111448
- 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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