The Gatehouse is a Grade I listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1952. A Circa 1500 Gatehouse.
The Gatehouse
- WRENN ID
- solitary-terrace-candle
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 May 1952
- Type
- Gatehouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE THE COLLEGE NZ 2741 NW (East side)
14/77 The Gatehouse 6.5.52 (formerly listed as The Priory Gateway)
GV I Gatehouse; incorporating St. Helen's Chapel, now muniment room. Circa 1500 for Prior Castell (1494-1519); restored c.1860. Coursed squared sandstone with chamfered ashlar plinth and ashlar dressings. Arched gateway with lodge on north and chapel above. 2 storeys, 1 bay. Double-chamfered 2-centred arch under renewed dripmould; eroded niches above flank renewed 3-light Perpendicular window under dripmould. Low-pitched coped gable parapet on string course.
Interior: 2 quadripartite ribbed vaults with tiercerons have carved bosses, that on east with the arms of the See of Durham carried by an angel, that on west with Prior Castell's badge; blind wall arcades, with square-headed door and 2-light window, to lodge on north; between the vaults a Tudor-arched vehicle entrance and north pedestrian arches with ledged boarded gates.
Interior of building has wavy-rail closed-string stair with ramped handrail, now blocked at foot; access on first-floor level from adjacent building. Stone newel stair at west end leads to former chapel, which has original low-pitched wood roof with large beams.
Listing NGR: NZ2740942017
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