GATES AND GATE PIERS TO WILDERNESS GARDEN AT NORTH END OF LIME AVENUE OF ADLINGTON HALL

GATES AND GATE PIERS TO WILDERNESS GARDEN AT NORTH END OF LIME AVENUE OF ADLINGTON HALL, MILL LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1329975
Date first listed:: 13-Apr-1967
List Entry Name:: GATES AND GATE PIERS TO WILDERNESS GARDEN AT NORTH END OF LIME AVENUE OF ADLINGTON HALL
Statutory Address:: GATES AND GATE PIERS TO WILDERNESS GARDEN AT NORTH END OF LIME AVENUE OF ADLINGTON HALL, MILL LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1329975
Date first listed:: 13-Apr-1967
List Entry Name:: GATES AND GATE PIERS TO WILDERNESS GARDEN AT NORTH END OF LIME AVENUE OF ADLINGTON HALL
Statutory Address 1:: GATES AND GATE PIERS TO WILDERNESS GARDEN AT NORTH END OF LIME AVENUE OF ADLINGTON HALL, MILL LANE

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

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: GATES AND GATE PIERS TO WILDERNESS GARDEN AT NORTH END OF LIME AVENUE OF ADLINGTON HALL, MILL LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Adlington
National Grid Reference:: SJ 90473 80334

Details

SJ 98 SW ADLINGTON C.P. MILL LANE (South Side)

3/18 Gates and gate piers to Wilderness garden at north end of lime avenue of Adlington Hall. 14/4/1967 GV II

Gates and gate piers: dated 1688 for Thomas Legh V. Ashlar buff gritstone. Piers have channelled rustication and stands on a low moulded plinths. Projecting moulded capstone has a flat top. Between are a pair of wrought iron gates made of closely spaced bars, square in section and pointed at the top. Some scroll work along top rail. Right hand gate contains a smaller door and left hand gate has the inscription IW 1688 on top bar. Gates erected, and lime avenue planted, in celebration of the arrival of William of Orange by a colonel of his militia.

Listing NGR: SJ9047380334

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Legacy System number:: 58184
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.