Gatehouse To Brownsea Castle At North Corner Of Walled Garden

The gatehouse to Brownsea Castle, located at the north corner of the walled garden, was built around 1854. It features light brick walls with stone dressings and has a flat roof adorned with battlemented parapets. The main gatehouse is square in plan and consists of two storeys, with rusticated corner piers and a pointed segmental archway. There are moulded string courses at the first floor and below the parapet. On the east face, there is a window above the arch that has ornamental cast iron glazing and a hoodmould. At the center of the roof, there is a timber clock turret with a battlemented parapet and an ogee-shaped copper roof, which is detailed with crocketted ribs and topped with a weathervane. To the right of the main block, there is a single-storey range that includes a circular turret at the rear, with windows featuring hoodmoulds and 20th-century casements. This property is managed by the National Trust and is recorded as RCHM Monument 3 in Dorset Volume II.