Description

STOURTON WITH GASPER HIGH STREET
ST 73 SE
(north side)
6/126 Clock Tower Gateway
GV II
Gateway to Stourhead (q.v.). Late C18. Dressed limestone. Pair
of 2-storey round-fronted towers flanking pointed archway with
battlemented parapet. Each tower has two recessed chamfered
pointed leaded windows with hoodmoulds to ground floor of road
front, first floor oculi, battlemented parapets. Rear facing
house; pointed ribbed doorway with keystone and imposts to each
tower, west tower has gilded clockface to first floor, east tower
has oculus, sides facing archway have loopholes, double cast-iron
gates. Probably a 1799-1800 rebuild of a similar gatehouse that
stood on the south side of the Stable Yard (q.v.).
(N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, Wiltshire, 1975)

Listing NGR: ST7786734117

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26572487

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Recommended Books

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)