Clock Tower Gateway

STOURTON WITH GASPER HIGH STREET ST 73 SE (north side) 6/126 Clock Tower Gateway GV II Gateway to Stourhead (q.v.). Late C18. Dressed limestone. Pair of 2-storey round-fronted towers flanking pointed archway with battlemented parapet. Each tower has two recessed chamfered pointed leaded windows with hoodmoulds to ground floor of road front, first floor oculi, battlemented parapets. Rear facing house; pointed ribbed doorway with keystone and imposts to each tower, west tower has gilded clockface to first floor, east tower has oculus, sides facing archway have loopholes, double cast-iron gates. Probably a 1799-1800 rebuild of a similar gatehouse that stood on the south side of the Stable Yard (q.v.). (N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, Wiltshire, 1975)

Listing NGR: ST7786734117