Description

SY 78 SW POXWELL

9/59 Gatehouse and
attached garden
26.1.56 walls immediately
east of Poxwell
GV House

II*

Gatehouse hexagonal and attached garden walls. Gatehouse dated 1634,
and C17 walls, Brick cladding in stretcher bond to a probable
rubble cove. Brick plinth moulding, stone string and cornice moulding.
Circular brick buttresses at corners, with a band of glazed bricks at
the corners with embossed jewel ornament and initial H, stone
finials above. Pyramidal clay tile roof with stone finial
at apex. In the east and west walls are archways with moulded jambs
and semi circular heads, one with a dated keystone. The upper
floor is reached by an external staircase and was two light windows
with central mullion to east and west. Fixed iron framed windows,
glazed. Attached garden walls, running north and south from gatehouse
and returning to the house, C17 or later. Red brick walls with
triangular brick coping having moulded dentils. Level course of bricks
on the apex. The walls are heavily ramped to the gatehouse and to the
corners. (R.C.H.M. Dorset II, p. 262 (3)).

Listing NGR: SY7416084005

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17542652

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Recommended Books

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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)