Gatehouse And Walls Adjoining To Bishopthorpe Palace is a Grade II* listed building in the York local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1985. A Georgian Gatehouse.
Gatehouse And Walls Adjoining To Bishopthorpe Palace
- WRENN ID
- keen-spire-gorse
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- York
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1985
- Type
- Gatehouse
- Period
- Georgian
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SE 5847-5947 BISHOPTHORPE BISHOPTHORPE ROAD (east side)
7/26 Gatehouse and walls adjoining to Bishopthorpe Palace
GV II*
Gatehouse and walls adjoining. 1763-5 by Thomas Atkinson for Archbishop Drummond incorporating clock of 1744 with turret of 1895 and re-roofing of 1978. Magnesian limestone with brown stone, lead roof and oak gates. Gatehouse square on plan. Gothick style. 2 storeys single bay. Angle buttresses with off-sets surmounted by pinnacles. Segmental-headed archway with continuous moulding to architrave and coat of arms at head under ogee- headed hood-mould. Panelled gates with Perpendicular enrichment. First floor: 4-light window with intersecting tracery under hood-mould. Clock in gable. Embattled pediment with modillion cornice. Concealed hipped roof, surmounted by open turret with conical roof and weathercock. Similar facade to rear. Embattled walls to either side with 4-centred arched openings and buttresses with off-sets surmounted by pinnacles. Eric A Gee, Bishopthorpe Palace. An Architectural History, 1983, pp 40-41.
Listing NGR: SE5963247780
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