Gate House And Curtain Walls Farleigh Castle

The Gate House and curtain walls at Farleigh Castle date from around 1806 and are built from ashlar Doulting stone with Welsh slate gabled roofs, designed in the Perpendicular Gothic style. The structure is two stories tall with a double pile plan and features a single window on the east front. To the right, there is a blocked, 4-centred stone arched door frame beneath a common stopped drip mould, alongside a 2-light, 4-centred stone mullion window. The first floor has a 3-light, 4-centred stone mullion window, and grotesque stone masks are positioned on either side. The southeast gable end includes a blocked 4-light rectilinear tracery window under a pointed arch and stopped drip mould. The building has stepped end gables, embattled parapets with crocketted pinnacles, and a crocketted fleche over the southeast gable.

Surrounding the Gate House are approximately 3-meter-high embattled ashlar stone curtain walls, featuring buttressed and embattled towers at the corners and near the gateways. There are heavy studded lattice gates for both pedestrian and vehicular access. To the west of the Gate House, a 4-centred coach arch with diagonal buttresses in three stages is adorned with crocketted pinnacles, a central niche, and pedimented perforated coping above.