Description

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TA 23 SE
8/38
16.12.66

EAST GARTON
GRIMSTON
Gatehouse to Grimston Garth

II

Gatehouse. 1812. By Thomas Earle of Hull. Gothick style. Grey brick with stone dressings, lead roof. 2 storeys, rectangular plan with octagonal corner turrets. Lower 2-storey wings to right and left added c1860. Central pointed arch on foliage decorated imposts and clustered columns to responds. Heraldic shield flanked by blank gunloops over. First floor: square-headed window with 3 trefoil lights under hood-mould. False machicolations, moulded string, crenellated parapet. Turrets have 4 stages divided by chamfered strings: false machicolations, crenellated parapets. Lancets with hoodmoulds with carved head stops to stages 2 and 4, glazed arrow loops to stages 1 and 3. Interior: principal room over carriageway has 4 pointed doors with Gothick panels: one to each turret.
Gatehouse to the principal entrance to the parkland surrounding the grade I listed Grimston Garth.

Listing NGR: TA2764834876

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26510765

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Recommended Books

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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)