Description

TF 93 SW BARSHAM FAKENHAM ROAD
6/3 East Barsham

The Gatehouse to the
Manor

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Detached gatehouse. Dateable on heraldic evidence post 1527. Brick rubble and
moulded brick. Two storeys, with 4 corner angle shafts rising above battlemented
parapet to form circular finials. Perpendicular arch to south, stone jambs with
moulded brick arch; spandrel with Tudor Royal coat of arms post 1527. First floor
3-light mullioned window in panelled field which runs over the angle shafts on this
face only. Vaulting inside arch no longer extant. To north facing house arch in
fleuron framed compartment. At west 5-sided staircase turret. Thought to have been
flanked with now demolished ancillary wings to East Barsham Manor. Scheduled Ancient
Monument, County Number 138.

Listing NGR: TF9172733888

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q5327794

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)