Tixall, The Gatehouse

Has been described as a Possible Fortified Manor House

There are major building remains

NameTixall, The Gatehouse
Alternative NamesTixall Hall
Historic CountryStaffordshire
Modern AuthorityStaffordshire
1974 AuthorityStaffordshire
Civil ParishTixall

Built circa 1575 and a very stylish specimen of Elizabethan design. Ashlar faced and retangular with octagonal ogee-domed turrets at the angles and central. archway. 3 storeys, each decorated with an Order of columns: Doric, Ionic and Corinthian, Balustraded parapet. The interior is gutted and the roof almost gone. Mullioned and transomed windows. (Listed Building Report)

Gatehouse Comments

Gatehouse to lost C16 Hall a 'particularly resilient and widespread castle-inspired feature' (Goodall, p. 458) although only the general form could said to be 'defensive'. A late C17 engraving of the gatehouse shows an uncrenellated boundary wall which does make the gatehouse make more sense than its current, rather splendid, isolation.

- Philip Davis

Not scheduled

This is a Grade 1 listed building protected by law

Historic England Scheduled Monument Number
Historic England Listed Building number(s)
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Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)
County Historic Environment Record
OS Map Grid ReferenceSJ979229
Latitude52.8040084838867
Longitude-2.03242993354797
Eastings397911
Northings322948
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Books

  • Goodall, John, 2011, The English Castle 1066-1650 (Yale University Press) p. 458
  • Timothy Mowl and Dianne Barr, 2009, The Historic Gardens of England: Staffordshire p. 26-28
  • Cooper, Nicholas, 1999, Houses of the Gentry, 1480-1680 (Yale University Press) p. 59
  • Pevsner, N., 1974, Buildings of England: Staffordshire (London, Penguin) p. 283
  • Midgley, L.M. (ed) 1958, VCH Staffordshire Vol. 4 p.
  • Masefield, C., 1930 (4edn), Staffordshire The Little Guide (Methuen & Co. Ltd) p. 234-5
  • Clifford, T., 1817, Topographical and Historical Description of Tixall

Antiquarian

  • Plot, Robert, 1686, Natural History of Staffordshire

Journals

  • Girouard, M., 1963, 'Tixall Gatehouse' The Archaeological Journal Vol. 120 p. 287 (slight) online copy
  • Horne, J.S., 1945-6, North Staffordshire Field Club transactions Vol. 80 p. 89