List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: THE INNER GATEHOUSE
List Entry Number: 1130290
Location
THE INNER GATEHOUSE, HIGH STREET
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Cambridgeshire
District: Huntingdonshire
District Type: District Authority
Parish: Buckden
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: I
Date first listed: 24-Oct-1951
Date of most recent amendment: 03-Jun-1983
Legacy System Information
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 54296
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List Entry Description
Summary of Building
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History
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Details
BUCKDEN HIGH STREET
TL 1867
(EAST SIDE)
5/24 THE INNER GATEHOUSE
24.10.51. (FORMERLY LISTED
AS PART OF
BUCKDEN PALACE)
GV I
Late C15 gatehouse. Red brick with burnt brick diapering and
patterning, and limestone dressings. Restored plain tiled
roofs. Three storeys with diagonal buttresses and stair turret
in north east corner. Chamfered plinth, embattled parapet,
carved string course with paterae and grotesque heads. The
outer and inner arches are three-centred and moulded. Above the
outer arch is the shield of arms of Bishop John Russell
(1480-94). Windows of three and two cinquefoil lights in square
heads with moulded reveals and labels. Stair turret has square
headed windows cut through buttresses. Range to south, two
storeys with crow-stepped-gable to south and fine first floor
window, moulded brick in ogee arch with crockets and finial and
shield of arms. Windows of one, two and three square-headed
lights, with moulded brick mullions and transomes. Entry to
first floor from curtain wall. Oak door, C15, feather-edged
planking. Interiors have original moulded cross-beams to all
floors, and timber-framed partitions. Original oak staircase,
and newel post in stair turret. In archway original almoners
door and hatchway with recessed seat in north wall. Wing to
north built c.1920 by Dr R H Edleston on site of earlier wing
from material of two C15 stone houses. Dedication plaque to
Napoleon III above doorway. AM.
Listing NGR: TL1921767714
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Map
National Grid Reference: TL 19217 67714
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