Description

CHARLECOTE

SP2556 CHARLECOTE PARK
1901-1/10/23 Gatehouse to Charlecote Park
05/04/67
(Formerly Listed as:
Gatehouse at Charlecote Park House)

GV I

Gatehouse, now museum. c1560. Brick laid to English bond with
limestone ashlar dressings.
EXTERIOR: east facade of 2 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range
plus 3-storey octagonal angle turret to each angle. Drip
courses and parapet with pierced rosette pattern. Round-headed
moulded archway has imposts, keystone with jewelled soffit;
paired wrought-iron gates with overthrow, 1722 by T Parris.
Ground floor has ovolo-mullioned cross-mullioned windows, with
similar windows above flanking bracketed canted oriel with
1:3:1-light transomed window over painted relief arms of Lucy
impaling Spencer in wreath and strapwork frame; each turret
has 2-light windows, top entablature and ogival cupola with
ball finial and weather-vane; that to left with 1824 clock
faces. All windows with leaded glazing, most with crown glass.
Rear similar, but drip course raised over arch with fluted
key; 3-light mullioned and transomed windows flanking entrance
and similar windows above, flanking 2 cross-mullion windows
and central bracketed stone panel.
North and south ends have cross-mullioned windows; 2-light
stair window to south.
INTERIOR: passage has 2 bays of rib vaulting with large
pendant bosses; each side has impost course and cornice over
elliptical-headed entrance with studded door and flanking
shell-head alcoves. To north a timber-framed partition and
dogleg stair; south side has room with moulded Tudor-arched
corner fireplace with cornice and Tudor-arched corner doorway.
Museum to first floor has similar fireplace and doorway and
doorways to turret rooms, panelled and battened doors;
north-west room has round-headed timber doorway with C17
panelled door and fireplace with traces of paint.
The gatehouse is a well preserved item. Property of the
National Trust.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Wedgwood A:
Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-: 227; The National Trust:
Charlecote Park: guidebook: 1991-: 6-8).

Listing NGR: SP2599256412

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17528412

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Recommended Books

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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)