Outbuilding At The Gatehouse

CHITTERNE CHITTERNE ROAD ST 94 SE (east side) 4/7 Outbuilding at The Gatehouse (formerly listed as St Andrew's 11.9.68 Chapel) GV II Outbuilding, probably originally stables with loft over. C16. Banded flint and limestone, single-roman tiled roof. Gable end to road. Two-storey, 2-window south front. Ribbed door in Tudor- arched staff-moulded architrave to right of centre, 3-light hollow- chamfered mullioned window with arched lights and hoodmould either side. Planked loft door with moulded jambs over doorway. Left return facing road has blocked 3-light mullioned window with arched lights and hoodmould to ground and first floor, blocked single- light to gable, saddleback coped verge with scrolled volutes at eaves. Rear has C19 casement, blocked single-light and loft door with moulded jambs as front. Right return has folding garage doors with C20 round-arched head, rubble stone buttress to right. Interior has loft over west end, roof with collar and tie-beam trusses and also some arch-braced collar trusses. This building is known as a chapel but there is no evidence to suggest that it was ever used as such; it is more likely to have been a service building to the main house (The Gatehouse q.v.).

Listing NGR: ST9917844240