Deanery Gate And Gatehouse

This is a substantial gateway and adjoining house, originally leading into the precinct of the former priory of St Andrews. The complex incorporates elements from the 14th century alongside later 18th and 19th century work.

The gatehouse archway, probably built around 1334 when the precinct wall was constructed, is similar in design to that at Chertsey. It is built of random rubble with a jettied timber frame and rendered first floor, featuring a hipped Kent tile roof with a gablet to the south. The ground floor contains a gatekeeper’s room that adjoins Gandulph’s Tower within the cathedral precinct. The inner and outer arches are four-centred and moulded. The first-floor room now forms part of the adjoining Deanery Gatehouse. Inside the first floor is characterised by jowelled posts, integral wall planking, and a plain crown post roof. There are two 12-pane hornless sash windows on the west side, and one similar window on the east.

The Deanery Gatehouse itself is primarily brick, with remnants of timber framing, exhibiting a double-depth plan with separately gabled ranges and end stacks. A framing post within the rear wall of the front range suggests the presence of an earlier timber-framed single-depth building connected to the gatehouse. This section was refurbished in the mid to late 18th century, with further modifications in the 19th century. The two-storey house has an attic, with a regular four-window front featuring two 3-light flat-roofed dormer casement windows with weatherboarded sides. The other windows are 12-pane hornless sashes set within segmental window arches and reveals. External shutters are present on the ground floor. A central doorway has a wooden doorcase with panelled pilasters, plain reveals, a pediment, and a five-panelled door, approached by four steps with wrought-iron railings. The rear elevation also has a four-window range with two 2-light hipped dormers. Inside, an open-well staircase features turned balusters and round-section newels. A panelled ground-floor room in the rear range includes a chimney piece with a shouldered arch, egg and dart mouldings, and a frieze with festoons, flanked by round-headed alcoves with key pieces and 6-panelled doors.