Gatehouse to Kimbolton School Kimbolton, England
Listed Building Data
Gatehouse to Kimbolton School 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
- 1221020
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- I
- Date Listed
- 24 October 1951
- Name
- GATEHOUSE TO KIMBOLTON SCHOOL
- Location
- GATEHOUSE TO KIMBOLTON SCHOOL, CASTLE GREEN
- Parish
- Kimbolton
- District
- Huntingdonshire
- County
- Cambridgeshire
- Grid Reference
- TL 10009 67670
- Easting
- 510009.0000
- Northing
- 267670.0000
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
KIMBOLTON CASTLE GREEN TL 095675 (EAST SIDE) 6/6 GATEHOUSE TO 24.10.51 KIMBOLTON SCHOOL GV I 1764-66 by Robert Adam for fourth Duke of Manchester. Gatehouse linked to two flanking pavilions by single storey ranges. Red brick with Ketton stone ashlar. Re-roofed in 1858 with slate. Symmetrical east and west elevations. Central semi-circular headed archway with rusticated surround between two hung sashes with glazing bars and Gibbs surrounds and divided by two engaged Doric columns and two pilasters. Doric frieze with mutules above triglyphs alternating with plain metopes and with guttae below. Moulded cornice surmounted by balustrade, sealed above archway. Panelled double doors with tradesman's door set in one, having iron door knocker in form of lion's head mask. Slightly recessed link ranges of three semi-circular headed bays divided by pilasters. One hung sash with glazing bars to each bay. Moulded cornice surmounted by parapet at lower level than gatehouse and pavilions. Gable end pediments to pavilions. Angle pilasters with similar Doric entablature flank semi- circular headed bay with round headed niche and rusticated surround. Interior. Archway has two original doors with six raised and fielded panels to each. The Castle brewhouse was in the north part of the Gatehouse. One brick vat is visible in the north pavilion. The laundry was in the south part. A rainwater head dated 1858 to an internal down pipe in the north part is probably the date for the re-roofing of the gatehouse. The C18 King post roof trusses are extant. RCHM (Hunts) p171. Pevsner: Building of England (Beds, Hunts and Peterborough), p281. VCH (Hunts), Vol. III. P.H. Burkett: "Kimbolton Castle" (published by Kimbolton School).
Listing NGR: TL1000967670
