The Gatehouse, Battle Abbey Battle, England
Listed Building Data
The Gatehouse, Battle Abbey has been designated a Grade I listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1278698
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- I
- Date Listed
- 3 August 1961
- Name
- THE GATEHOUSE, BATTLE ABBEY
- Location
- THE GATEHOUSE, BATTLE ABBEY, HIGH STREET
- Parish
- Battle
- District
- Rother
- County
- East Sussex
- Grid Reference
- TQ 74849 15786
- Easting
- 574849.1400
- Northing
- 115785.5451
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
TQ 7415-7515 BATTLE HIGH STREET (south west side)
41/1A The Gatehouse, Battle Abbey 3.8.61 (formerly listed as part of Battle Abbey)
GV I
Built in 1338 by Abbot Alan of Ketling. Stone. Pointed carriage archway and similar pedestrian archway with two storeys over. Ornamental arcading on first floor. Castellated parapet. Four octagonal turrets at the angles. The portion to the west of it forming the porters lodge is C12 and of two storeys. The portion to the east of the gateway was added in the C16 probably by Sir Anthony Browne on the site of the Almonry of the Abbey and was used as the court room of the manor of Battle till the C18. Two storeys. Four windows. Two round-headed arches. At the north east corner is an arched buttress and an octagonal - turret behind it. Part of the Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Listing NGR: TQ7490915704
