Gatehouse at the Castle Inn
GATEHOUSE AT THE CASTLE INN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1355560
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Gatehouse at the Castle Inn
- Statutory Address:
- GATEHOUSE AT THE CASTLE INN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1355560
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 08-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Gatehouse at the Castle Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- GATEHOUSE AT THE CASTLE INN
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 AT THE CASTLE INN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Radway
- National Grid Reference:
- SP3737647417
Details
The Grade shall be amended to II*
In the entry for:-
SP34NE RADWAY EDGEHILL
3/79
Gatehouse at The Castle Inn
(formerly listed as Edge Hill
Tower)
GV
RADWAY EDGEHILL
SP34NE
3/79
07/01/52
Gatehouse at The Castle Inn
(Formerly listed as Edge Hill
Tower)
GV II
Gatehouse. Formerly attached to The Castle Inn. Designed by Sanderson Miller for
himself. c.1746-1747. Ironstone ashlar. Castellated Gothick style. 2 storeys,
with 3 storey turrets; front partly below road level and obscured by later
causeway across blocked archway; 3 bays. Square turret on left has
machicolations and moulded battlements. Small lancets, blind to front. Lower
truncated turret on right, probably originally similar, has single-pitch roof
sloping to right. Arched gateway between has plank door with shields above. To
rear: 2-storey recessed archway. Large stone bracket to each side formerly
supported a bridge to The Castle Inn (q.v). Central arched doorway to vaulted
chamber. Turrets have chamfered plinth. Blind cross slit windows. and lancets
above. Inner faces have arched doorways to ground and second floors. The gateway
formed part of the Castle, also known as Edgehill Tower.
(V.C.H.: Warwickshire, Vol.V, p.142; Buildings of England: Warwickshire, p.380;
R.B. Wood-Jones: Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region: 1963.
p.199).
Listing NGR: SP3737647417
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 306190
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1949), 142
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 380
Wood-Jones, R B, Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region, (1963), 199
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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