GATEWAY AND FLANKING WALLS WITH GATEPIERS AT COTHELSTONE MANOR

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1344837
Date first listed:: 25-Feb-1955
List Entry Name:: GATEWAY AND FLANKING WALLS WITH GATEPIERS AT COTHELSTONE MANOR
Statutory Address:: GATEWAY AND FLANKING WALLS WITH GATEPIERS AT COTHELSTONE MANOR

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1344837
Date first listed:: 25-Feb-1955
Date of most recent amendment:: 04-May-1984
List Entry Name:: GATEWAY AND FLANKING WALLS WITH GATEPIERS AT COTHELSTONE MANOR
Statutory Address 1:: GATEWAY AND FLANKING WALLS WITH GATEPIERS AT COTHELSTONE MANOR

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: GATEWAY AND FLANKING WALLS WITH GATEPIERS AT COTHELSTONE MANOR

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Cothelstone
National Grid Reference:: ST 18221 31688

Details

ST13SE COTHELSTONE CP

3/84 Gateway and flanking walls with gatepiers at Cothelstone Manor (formerly listed as Gateway to South of Farmery at Manor

25.2.55

GV II*

Gateway. C16, moved to present position mid C19. Red sandstone ashlar facade, random rubble with buttresses at rear. Large, moulded arched central opening with hood mould flanked by smaller arched openings, recumbent lions, imported from Tetton House, late C19, on flat coping above with pentice coping over central opening. Coats of arms with moulded surround, probably mid C19, on either side of central opening. Curved red sandstone random rubble wall with flat coping about one and a half metres high to right, terminating in square pier with moulded cap; similar to left but about 3 metres high. This gateway originally stood across the road; two men were hung from it after Monmouth Rebellion. (G Stawell, History of A Quantock Family, 1910; photograph NMR).

Listing NGR: ST1822131688

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Legacy System number:: 270295
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Stawell, G, History of a Quantock Family, (1910)
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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 46 Wiltshire,

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.