Gate House Of Devizes Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. Gate house. 1 related planning application.

Gate House Of Devizes Castle

WRENN ID
pale-bracket-thyme
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Country
England
Type
Gate house
Source
Historic England listing

Description

  1. Gate House of 1042 Devizes Castle

SU 0061 2/217A

II

  1. Dating from the later phase of the present castle's expansion, circa 1860 rock faced gate house. Large round tower and lower square tower flanking gateway with machicollated crenellated parapets. The double gird pattern timber gates are set in a large Norman archway, flanked by heavy shafts with cushion capitals. Above the arch linking the towers a deeply machicollated parapet with zig zag, the centre merlon stepped up with coat of arms. To the town front there are only slit windows but facing the castle, the round tower has small deeply recessed Norman windows and 3 larger ones with leaded casements, the ground floor one with double gabled dripmould, the others with arohed dripmoulds. Round headed doorway with dripmould decorated with lion head at crown. The square tower has 1 similar small Ist floor window and similar doorway on ground floor, the door with diamond battens and diamond light. Picturesque.

Listing NGR: SU0032861361

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