Outer gatehouse and attached precinct walls and barn 50 metres north of Priory Farmhouse
Outer gatehouse and attached precinct walls and barn 50 metres north of Priory Farmhouse, Church Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1365129
- Date first listed:
- 08-Sept-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Outer gatehouse and attached precinct walls and barn 50 metres north of Priory Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- Outer gatehouse and attached precinct walls and barn 50 metres north of Priory Farmhouse, Church Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1365129
- Date first listed:
- 08-Sept-1961
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Outer gatehouse and attached precinct walls and barn 50 metres north of Priory Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- Outer gatehouse and attached precinct walls and barn 50 metres north of Priory Farmhouse, Church Road
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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:
- Outer gatehouse and attached precinct walls and barn 50 metres north of Priory Farmhouse, Church Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- North Warwickshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Maxstoke
- National Grid Reference:
- SP2345286891
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 24/01/2019
SP2386
17/107
MAXSTOKE
CHURCH ROAD (South side)
Outer gatehouse and attached precinct walls and barn 50 metres north of Priory Farmhouse
(Formerly listed as Outer gatehouse and attached precinct walls and barn 200m north of Priory Farmhouse, previously listed as Remains of outer gatehouse and precinct wall)
08/09/61
GV
II*
Outer gatehouse to former priory of Augustinian Canons. Early C14. Squared and irregularly coursed sandstone. Gables of original roof remain, but the rafters have been removed. Square plan.
Two storeys. Outer wall has at first floor a window of two-lights in two-centred chamfered arch, with fragments of reticulated tracery. On either side of this window are two C15 niches with trefoil cusping to canopies flanked by engaged shafts. Three-centred carriageway arch of two chamfered arches to each face. Inner arch is similar and has a similar window above. South west angle has octagonal stair vice, C15/C16, in ogee headed arch. North-west angle has a small projecting wing of three storeys. Adjoining precinct walls of similar squared and irregularly coursed sandstone with gable coping. At the east end, part of the precinct wall is incorporated in the north side wall of a C19 barn. Red brick with plain-tiled roof.
Interior: gatehouse has original cross wall with three-centred double chamfered arch to carriageway and on the west, a two-centred chamfered arch for pedestrians. Diagonal and ridge ribs to vaulting to three bays. Doorways have C19 plank doors but early C14 reset iron furniture.
Founded 1336 by William de Clinton, Earl of Huntingdon. Scheduled monument.
Listing NGR: SP2345286891
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 309012
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1947)
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 350
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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