Gateway, Lodges and Walls at Entrance to Swinburne Castle
GATEWAY, LODGES AND WALLS AT ENTRANCE TO SWINBURNE CASTLE, A6079
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1044936
- Date first listed:
- 05-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Gateway, Lodges and Walls at Entrance to Swinburne Castle
- Statutory Address:
- GATEWAY, LODGES AND WALLS AT ENTRANCE TO SWINBURNE CASTLE, A6079
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1044936
- Date first listed:
- 05-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Gateway, Lodges and Walls at Entrance to Swinburne Castle
- Statutory Address 1:
- GATEWAY, LODGES AND WALLS AT ENTRANCE TO SWINBURNE CASTLE, A6079
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- GATEWAY, LODGES AND WALLS AT ENTRANCE TO SWINBURNE CASTLE, A6079
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chollerton
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 93570 73478
Details
NY 97 SW CHOLLERTON A6079
Gateway, lodges and 14/29 walls at entrance to Swinburne Castle II*
Gateway, walls and lodges. Late C18. Ashlar with Welsh slate roofs. Cast-iron railings. Archway flanked by single-storey l-bay lodges and by quadrant walls with railings.
Archway has to each side a pair of engaged Tuscan columns with round-headed niches between. The capitals have sprays of oak leaves. Fluted frieze and cornice. Round arch in archivolt has ox skull with tasseled horns on keystone. Flanking rectangular panels with Adam-style rosettes and fans. Pediment above has cartouche with feathers.
Lodges have 4-pane sashes. Fluted frieze and cornice; and corniced parapet with blind balustraded panels.
Lodge inner returns have plank doors with pulvinated overpanels. Stone corniced end stacks and hipped roofs.
Low quadrant walls with chamfered coping topped by spearhead railings and urn finials to principal standards, ending in tall square corniced piers.
Listing NGR: NY9357073478
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 239564
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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