GATEWAY AND FLANKING WALLS TO HODNET HALL APPROXIMATELY 18 METRES TO SOUTH WEST OF CHURCH OF SAINT LUKE

GATEWAY AND FLANKING WALLS TO HODNET HALL APPROXIMATELY 18 METRES TO SOUTH WEST OF CHURCH OF SAINT LUKE, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1176248
Date first listed:: 25-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:: GATEWAY AND FLANKING WALLS TO HODNET HALL APPROXIMATELY 18 METRES TO SOUTH WEST OF CHURCH OF SAINT LUKE
Statutory Address:: GATEWAY AND FLANKING WALLS TO HODNET HALL APPROXIMATELY 18 METRES TO SOUTH WEST OF CHURCH OF SAINT LUKE, CHURCH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1176248
Date first listed:: 25-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:: GATEWAY AND FLANKING WALLS TO HODNET HALL APPROXIMATELY 18 METRES TO SOUTH WEST OF CHURCH OF SAINT LUKE
Statutory Address 1:: GATEWAY AND FLANKING WALLS TO HODNET HALL APPROXIMATELY 18 METRES TO SOUTH WEST OF CHURCH OF SAINT LUKE, CHURCH STREET

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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: GATEWAY AND FLANKING WALLS TO HODNET HALL APPROXIMATELY 18 METRES TO SOUTH WEST OF CHURCH OF SAINT LUKE, CHURCH STREET

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District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Hodnet
National Grid Reference:: SJ 61214 28574

Details

HODNET C.P. CHURCH STREET SJ 6028-6128 13/47 Gateway and flanking walls - to Hodnet Hall approx. 18 metres to south-west of Church of Saint Luke

GV II

Gateway and flanking walls. Dated 1887, probably by Anthony Salvin. Grey sandstone ashlar. Neo-Jacobean style. East side: flanking buttresses with chamfered offsets and chamfered reveals, banded rustication above returned as voussoirs, and raised keystone with Ionic volutes and inscription: "ESPERANCE / EN DIEU / 1954" (earlier lettering just visible beneath:" ? / CORVOS / 1887". Frieze with raised rectangular panels, and open triangular pediment resting on brackets and with central globe finial in tympanum. Keystone at rear with carved family crest. Flanking walls of tooled ashlar with ramped chamfered copings and square end piers with moulded caps and globe finials. The gateway is similar to one dated 1631 and 1954 in Hodnet Park (q.v.). Hodnet was formerly the seat of the Vernons. The present building (not included on this list) dates from 1870. B.O.E., p. 151.

Listing NGR: SJ6121428572

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Legacy System number:: 260200
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958), 151

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.