Description

1. EYNSFORD LULLINGSTONE LANE
5280 Lullingstone
The Gatehouse to
TQ 56 SW 5/64 1.6.67 Lullingstone Castle
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C16. This was the outer Gatehouse of the house built by Sir Percyvall Hart between
1543 and 1580. (Of which parts remain in the later Lullingstone Castle) and
was constructed sometime after the middle of the century. The inner Gatehouse
was demolished in the mid C18. Red brick laid in English Bond, with traces of
diaper pattern. In plan it consists of a rectangle with polygonal turrets attached
to the outer face, and polygonal projections from the inner. In elevation it
comprises a carriage archway with a room over flanked by turrets of 3 storeys.
Machicolation and a castellated parapet to the whole. Casement windows with
brick mullions. The outer side faces west and has a 4-centred brick carriage
archway which retains its original ribbed double doors of 20 panels, and over
it a cartouche and a single window of 2 tiers of 4 lights. Flanking this are
hexagonal staircase turrets which rise higher than the remainder of the Gatehouse.
These have quatrefoil loop lights and terracotta panels. Otherwise this side
of the Gatehouse is blind.
On the inner side is a similar moulded archway with brick dripstone and cartouche
and similar window over and these are flanked by canted bays of 3 storeys which
contain 4-centre pedestrian doorways with dripstones on the ground floor flanked
by small rectangular single light windows and windows of 2 tiers of 3-lights
on the first and second floors. AM.

Listing NGR: TQ5301664385

External Links

• Historic England Listing

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas