Gatehouse 35 metres to west of the Castle Keep

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NEWTON ST. LOE NEWTON PARK Gatehouse, 35 m. to west of the Castle Keep

G.V. I

Gatehouse. C15, altered late C18 - early C19. Coursed rubble with freestone dressings, hipped slate roofs concealed behind plain and embattled parapets. Two storeys. West Elevation. Central, heavily moulded, four-centred archway with portcullis groove. Large studded plank doors with strap hinges and wicket door. Flanking square buttresses (C18 - C19) with embattled tops and embattled parapet on moulded corbels between the buttresses. The right hand buttress partly obscures a single light window in a double chamfered surround. East Elevation. Two-light casement windows in double chamfered surrounds, to three stages. Buttresses with off-sets flank the archway. The archway has a two bay tierceron vault springing from clustered triple shafts and enriched capitals, bosses carved with foliage, arms, Tudor roses and heads. The north wall is pierced by two segmental headed openings.

Listing NGR: ST6936063977