Description

CHASTLETON
SP2429-2529
11/22 Gateway, attached garden walls
and coach house to S of main
front of Chastleton House

GV II*

Gateway, attached garden wall and coach house. Probably early C17 with minor
later alterations. Gateway. Limestone ashlar. Chamfered round-headed archway
with hoodmould and plain imposts surmounted by moulded pediment with finials to
corners and centre. Coat-of-arms with lion rampant to rear. Garden wall.
Regularly coursed and dressed marlstone with ashlar coping to front and rounded
rubble coping with dripmould to sides, ramped to corners. Encloses a rectangular
area of approximately 50 metres by 25 metres and stable yard to south-west.
North-east side has chamfered Tudor arch with plank door in angle with north
churchyard wall (q.v. under Garden wall to north-east of Chastleton House) and
similar doorway with iron gate a few metres to south of point where it joins
Chastleton House (q.v.). South-west side incorporates small coach house facing
stable-yard. Regularly coursed marlstone rubble with coped verges, carved apexes
and stepped ashlar decoration to gable ends; roofing material removed at time of
resurvey (August 1987). 2-bay front with 2 sets of wide plank double doors
separated by stone column. Coach house is linked to stables (q.v.) by short
ashlar section of wall with moulded 4-centred arch; wall then continues north
for a few metres to join Chastleton House. Interior of coach house has inserted
loft and only tie beam and bottom of principal rafters of 2-bay roof structure
visible at time of resurvey.
(Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p533)
[2463]

Listing NGR: SP2485229031

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17533226

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Recommended Books

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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)