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

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17529996

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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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