Listed Building: GATEHOUSE AND WALLS ADJOINING TO BISHOPTHORPE PALACE (1166705)

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Grade II*
NHLE 1166705
Date assigned 12 July 1985
Date last amended

Description

SE 5847-5947 BISHOPTHORPE BISHOPTHORPE ROAD (east side) 7/26 Gatehouse and walls adjoining to Bishopthorpe Palace GV II* Gatehouse and walls adjoining. 1763-5 by Thomas Atkinson for Archbishop Drummond incorporating clock of 1744 with turret of 1895 and re-roofing of 1978. Magnesian limestone with brown stone, lead roof and oak gates. Gatehouse square on plan. Gothick style. 2 storeys single bay. Angle buttresses with off-sets surmounted by pinnacles. Segmental-headed archway with continuous moulding to architrave and coat of arms at head under ogee- headed hood-mould. Panelled gates with Perpendicular enrichment. First floor: 4-light window with intersecting tracery under hood-mould. Clock in gable. Embattled pediment with modillion cornice. Concealed hipped roof, surmounted by open turret with conical roof and weathercock. Similar facade to rear. Embattled walls to either side with 4-centred arched openings and buttresses with off-sets surmounted by pinnacles. Eric A Gee, Bishopthorpe Palace. An Architectural History, 1983, pp 40-41. Listing NGR: SE5963247780

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Grid reference SE 5963 4778 (point)
Map sheet SE54NE

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Nov 30 2021 9:27PM

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