Gate House And Curtain Walls Farleigh Castle

ST75NE NORTON ST. PHILIP CP FARLEIGH HUNGERFORD 1/242 Gate House and curtain walls. Farleigh Castle -

GV II

Gate House. Circa 1806. Ashlar Doulting stone with welsh slate gabled roofs. Perpendicular Gothic style. 2-storeys, double pile plan, single window east front. 2-light, 4-centred stone mullion window with 4-centred stone arched and moulded door frame, now blocked, to right under a common stopped dripmould. 3-light, 4-centred stone mullion window to first floor. To each side grotesque stone masks. 4-light rectilinear tracery window, now blocked, under a pointed arch and stopped dripmould in South east gable end. Stepped end gables, embattled parapets with crocketted pinnacles and crocketted fleche over south east gable. To each side of Gate House, approximately 3 metres high embattled ashlar stone curtain walls, with buttressed and embattled towers at the angles and to gateways. Heavy studded lattice gates to pedestrian and venicular entrances. To west of Gate House a 4-centred coach arch with diagonal buttresses in 3 stages, with crocketted pinnacles, a central niche, and pedimented perforated coping over.

Listing NGR: ST7982056986