GATE HOUSE AND CURTAIN WALLS FARLEIGH CASTLE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1345337
Date first listed:: 16-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: GATE HOUSE AND CURTAIN WALLS FARLEIGH CASTLE
Statutory Address:: GATE HOUSE AND CURTAIN WALLS FARLEIGH CASTLE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1345337
Date first listed:: 16-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: GATE HOUSE AND CURTAIN WALLS FARLEIGH CASTLE
Statutory Address 1:: GATE HOUSE AND CURTAIN WALLS FARLEIGH CASTLE

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:: GATE HOUSE AND CURTAIN WALLS FARLEIGH CASTLE

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Norton St. Philip
National Grid Reference:: ST 79820 56986

Details

ST75NE NORTON ST. PHILIP CP FARLEIGH HUNGERFORD 1/242 Gate House and curtain walls. Farleigh Castle -

GV II

Gate House. Circa 1806. Ashlar Doulting stone with welsh slate gabled roofs. Perpendicular Gothic style. 2-storeys, double pile plan, single window east front. 2-light, 4-centred stone mullion window with 4-centred stone arched and moulded door frame, now blocked, to right under a common stopped dripmould. 3-light, 4-centred stone mullion window to first floor. To each side grotesque stone masks. 4-light rectilinear tracery window, now blocked, under a pointed arch and stopped dripmould in South east gable end. Stepped end gables, embattled parapets with crocketted pinnacles and crocketted fleche over south east gable. To each side of Gate House, approximately 3 metres high embattled ashlar stone curtain walls, with buttressed and embattled towers at the angles and to gateways. Heavy studded lattice gates to pedestrian and venicular entrances. To west of Gate House a 4-centred coach arch with diagonal buttresses in 3 stages, with crocketted pinnacles, a central niche, and pedimented perforated coping over.

Listing NGR: ST7982056986

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Legacy System number:: 267189
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.