Gatehouse and Wall Linking Gatehouse to Manor on South East Side, Cothay Manor
GATEHOUSE AND WALL LINKING GATEHOUSE TO MANOR ON SOUTH EAST SIDE, COTHAY MANOR
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1344803
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Gatehouse and Wall Linking Gatehouse to Manor on South East Side, Cothay Manor
- Statutory Address:
- GATEHOUSE AND WALL LINKING GATEHOUSE TO MANOR ON SOUTH EAST SIDE, COTHAY MANOR
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1344803
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Gatehouse and Wall Linking Gatehouse to Manor on South East Side, Cothay Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- GATEHOUSE AND WALL LINKING GATEHOUSE TO MANOR ON SOUTH EAST SIDE, COTHAY MANOR
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 AND WALL LINKING GATEHOUSE TO MANOR ON SOUTH EAST SIDE, COTHAY MANOR
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stawley
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 08529 21297
Details
ST02SE STAWLEY CP COTHAY
6/25 Gatehouse and Wall linking gatehouse to Manor on South East side, Cothay Manor 25.1.56
GV II*
Gatehouse. Late C15, extensively restored 1926-7. Red sandstone random rubble. Steeply pitched plain tile roof right of flat lead roofed tower. Plan: square tower gateway with hexagonal projecting stair turret, originally flanked by 2 symmetrical wings of which only the right one remains. 2-storeys, 1:2 bays; tower, crenellated, set back buttresses, first floor 3-light Tudor arch head window with string course acting as hood mould, moulded depressed arch entrance with hood mould; above reset square panel with arms of Richard Bluett and his wife Alice Verney, the builder of Cothay. To right, first floor two 2-light Tudor arch head windows with hood moulds, below two square lancets with chamfered surrounds and relieving arches. Two stepped buttresses on facade buttressed returns. Interior: stone newel stair, chamfered lintel to first floor fireplace, arched niche below in wing which is no longer ceiled. Roof rebuilt 1926-7. Wall, red sandstone randon rubble, stone slate coping, about 2 metres high, dog leg plan, linking gatehouse to Manor. (M Wood, The Medieval House, 1981; Country Life, October 22 and 29, 1927).
Listing NGR: ST0852921297
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 270100
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Wood, E, The English Medieval House, (1965)
Country Life in 22 October, (1927)
Country Life in 29 October, (1927)
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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