Description

NORTH BOVEY
SX 78 SW
4/208 Gateway arch approximately 10
- metres east-north-east of Manor
House Hotel

GV II

Gateway arch with small lodge either side leading to forecourt of Manor House Hotel
(q.v.). Dated 1907 by Detmar Blow for Viscount Hambledon. Snecked dressed granite
blocks with Bath stone dressings. Clay tile pyramidal roof to lodges, with ball
apex finials at centre.
Plan: Central carriageway arch with flanking diagonally set square 1-room plan
lodges, each with flanking outer wall. Segmental voussoir stone carriageway arch
with studded and panelled doors. Above are 2 octagonal chimneys with central raised
plaque in between which has heraldic shield and date of 1907 carved on it.
Identical lodge either side with one room on ground floor and one on first floor
reached by external stone steps on the opposite side to the archway. Stone 4-
centred arched doorway at top and bottom of steps and a 2-light stone mullion window
to ground and first floor on each side adjoining the archway. An octagonal stone
chimney rises from the flanking wall to each lodge at the top of the external steps.

Listing NGR: SX7319384525

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26389427

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Recommended Books

• 
  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair