Gateway, Attached Garden Walls And Coach House To South Of Main Front Of Chastleton House

CHASTLETON SP2429-2529 11/22 Gateway, attached garden walls and coach house to S of main front of Chastleton House

GV II*

Gateway, attached garden wall and coach house. Probably early C17 with minor later alterations. Gateway. Limestone ashlar. Chamfered round-headed archway with hoodmould and plain imposts surmounted by moulded pediment with finials to corners and centre. Coat-of-arms with lion rampant to rear. Garden wall. Regularly coursed and dressed marlstone with ashlar coping to front and rounded rubble coping with dripmould to sides, ramped to corners. Encloses a rectangular area of approximately 50 metres by 25 metres and stable yard to south-west. North-east side has chamfered Tudor arch with plank door in angle with north churchyard wall (q.v. under Garden wall to north-east of Chastleton House) and similar doorway with iron gate a few metres to south of point where it joins Chastleton House (q.v.). South-west side incorporates small coach house facing stable-yard. Regularly coursed marlstone rubble with coped verges, carved apexes and stepped ashlar decoration to gable ends; roofing material removed at time of resurvey (August 1987). 2-bay front with 2 sets of wide plank double doors separated by stone column. Coach house is linked to stables (q.v.) by short ashlar section of wall with moulded 4-centred arch; wall then continues north for a few metres to join Chastleton House. Interior of coach house has inserted loft and only tie beam and bottom of principal rafters of 2-bay roof structure visible at time of resurvey. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p533) [2463]

Listing NGR: SP2485229031