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The Gateway, or 60–62 Welsh Row, is a
Late Georgian former
stable entrance in
Nantwich
Nantwich ( ) is a market town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East in Cheshire, England. It has among the highest concentrations of listed buildings in England, with notably good examples of Tudor and Georgian architecture. ...
,
Cheshire
Cheshire ( ) is a ceremonial and historic county in North West England, bordered by Wales to the west, Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, and Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south. Cheshire's county t ...
, England, dating from the early 19th century. It is located on the north side of
Welsh Row (at ), on the junction with Red Lion Lane. It is listed at
grade II.
Nikolaus Pevsner
Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, ''The Buildings of England'' (1 ...
describes The Gateway as "handsome".
Pevsner considers Welsh Row "the best street of Nantwich".
[Pevsner & Hubbard, p. 289] The street has many listed buildings and is known for its mixture of architectural styles,
[Bavington ''et al''., plate 55] including other Georgian buildings such as
number 83 opposite and
Townwell House,
black-and-white
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cottages such as the
Widows' and
Wilbraham's Almshouses, and
Victorian buildings such as the former
Grammar School
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,
Primitive Methodist Chapel and
Savings Bank
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They originated in Europe during the 18th century with the aim of providing access to savings products to al ...
.
History
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The Gateway was built in the early 19th century as the
stable entrance to the
Porch House, which stands behind it at number 64.
Description
![The Gateway detail](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/95/The_Gateway_detail.jpg)
The Gateway is a substantial detached
Late Georgian building in red brick with a slate roof. Now divided into two dwellings, it has two storeys with three bays to the front.
The Gateway stands immediately adjacent to the street while
The Hawthorns
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, to its left, is set back behind a walled courtyard, so that the entire left face of The Gateway is visible from the street. A wide stone
string course encircles the building immediately below the level of the first-floor windows, and there is a wooden
cornice
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at eaves level.
The symmetrical front façade has a central slightly projecting section of a single bay width, which is capped with a
pediment
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Pediments are placed above the horizontal structure of the lintel, or entablature, if supported by columns. Pediments can contain an overdoor and are usually topped by hood moulds.
A pedimen ...
. There is a prominent central stone archway leading to the Porch House, which is framed by a large two-storey recess with an arched top outlined in brick.
Above the archway, within the recess, is a small window with an arched top. The flanking wings on the front façade each have a similar recess containing a large
sash window
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on the ground floor and a smaller one with an arched top on the first floor. This unit is twice repeated on each side of the building, with slight variations: on the side faces, the first-floor windows nearest the street have horizontal tops, and the windows to the Red Lion Lane face are blind.
The main entrances to the two houses are within the archway.
See also
*
Listed buildings in Nantwich
Nantwich is a market town and civil parish in Cheshire East, Cheshire, England. It contains 132 listed buildings and structures, with three classified as grade I, seven as grade II* and 122 as grade II. In the United Kingdom, t ...
References
Sources
*Bavington G ''et al''. ''Nantwich, Worleston & Wybunbury: A Portrait in Old Picture Postcards'' (Brampton Publications; 1987) ()
*Pevsner N, Hubbard E. ''The Buildings of England: Cheshire'' (Penguin Books; 1971) ()
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