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Latitude: 52.5899 / 52°35'23"N
Longitude: -2.8346 / 2°50'4"W
OS Eastings: 343557
OS Northings: 299454
OS Grid: SO435994
Mapcode National: GBR BF.9SZH
Mapcode Global: WH8CC.F5F9
Plus Code: 9C4VH5Q8+X5
Entry Name: The Gate House
Listing Date: 7 April 1986
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1307348
English Heritage Legacy ID: 259632
ID on this website: 101307348
Location: Picklescott, Shropshire, SY6
County: Shropshire
Civil Parish: Smethcott
Traditional County: Shropshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Shropshire
Church of England Parish: Smethcote St Michael
Church of England Diocese: Hereford
Tagged with: Gatehouse
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SMETHCOTT C.P.
PICKLESCOTT
The Gate House
GV
II
Cottage, latterly inn. Early to mid C18, possibly incorporating an earlier core. Painted sandstone rubble with brick dressings; plain tile roof. Three-unit baffle-entry plan. One storey and attic. Dentil brick eaves cornice and three gabled semi-dormers with two-light wooden casements; brick ridge stack off-centre to right and integral brick end stack to left. Three window front; two-light segmental-headed wooden casements. Half-glazed door between first and second windows off-centre to right with C19 gabled wooden porch. Pair of conically-roofed bread ovens projecting from left-hand gable end. Interior: central ground-floor room has chamfered spine beam, plain joists, and blocked fireplace with lintel.
This cottage was a wheelwright's shop in the later C19 and is also said to have been an alehouse known as the Gate Hangs Well, possibly the alehouse first recorded in 1616. The Gate House occupies a prominent position in the centre of Picklescott. Included
for group value.
Listing NGR: SO4355799454
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