Description

ST75NE NORTON ST. PHILIP CP
FARLEIGH HUNGERFORD
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Gate House and curtain walls.
Farleigh Castle
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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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26628974

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Recommended Books

• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)