Gate House at Old Shute House Including Flanking Walls and Pavilions

GATE HOUSE AT OLD SHUTE HOUSE INCLUDING FLANKING WALLS AND PAVILIONS

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1098437
Date first listed:
08-May-1967
Statutory Address:
GATE HOUSE AT OLD SHUTE HOUSE INCLUDING FLANKING WALLS AND PAVILIONS
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1098437
Date first listed:
08-May-1967
Statutory Address 1:
GATE HOUSE AT OLD SHUTE HOUSE INCLUDING FLANKING WALLS AND PAVILIONS

Location

Statutory Address:
GATE HOUSE AT OLD SHUTE HOUSE INCLUDING FLANKING WALLS AND PAVILIONS

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

County:
Devon
District:
East Devon (District Authority)
Parish:
Shute
National Grid Reference:
SY 25214 97494

Details

SY 29 NE SHUTE SHUTE VILLAGE 10/481 8.5.67 Gate House at Old Shute House including flanking Walls and Pavilions GV I

Gatehouse and flanking pavilions. Circa 1570 or possibly of earlier C16 origin. Originally probably aligned on the later parts of Old Shute House before they were demolished in 1785.

Stone rubble with freestone dressings. Large three-storey gatehouse tower with semi-octagonal corner turrets stone mullion and transom windows, enbattled parapet and carriageway with timber four-centred arch over which are the arms of William Pole. Flanking enbattled walls terminating in smaller three storey pavilions with full height splayed bays and battlements. Said to contain moulded plaster ceiling. Ref Country Life Volume 109 pages 326 and 398.

Listing NGR: SY2521497493

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Country Life in 2 February, Vol. 109, (1951), 326 398

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