Description

RABY WITH KEVERSTONE RABY PARK NZ 1221 16/83 North gatehouse 14/9/66 and walls attached enclosing castle; gatehouse formerly listed as 'Porter's Lodge'

GV I

Castle gatehouse and castle wall. C14, with C18 alterations by J. Carr. Coursed sandstone blocks with ashlar dressings; wall of similar materials. 2-storey gatehouse. Wide segmental portcullis arch under corbelled balcony; 2-light window above with cusped ogee heads; machicolations below top parapet with crenellations. Flanking turrets,narrower at left, crenellated, with square-headed chamfered surrounds to door at left, and to 3-foil-headed window at right. Machicolated returns to turrets. Life-size figures on battlements resited from east barbican, now demolished, and from guard tower. Flanking walls stepped down, with blind quatrefoil decoration, to lower turrets. From these the encircling wall, reduced to c. one metre above level of castle yard, tops retaining wall along inner edge of moat, with square projections, flat buttresses, battered lower courses on south,and segmental-arched entrance from moat on south-east.

Listing NGR: NZ1288521834

External Links

• Wikidata Q17529996

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)