Gatepiers, Gate, Boundary Wall Fronting Road and Garden Wall to Terrace at Halsway Manor
GATEPIERS, GATE, BOUNDARY WALL FRONTING ROAD AND GARDEN WALL TO TERRACE AT HALSWAY MANOR, HALSWAY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1057473
- Date first listed:
- 16-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Gatepiers, Gate, Boundary Wall Fronting Road and Garden Wall to Terrace at Halsway Manor
- Statutory Address:
- GATEPIERS, GATE, BOUNDARY WALL FRONTING ROAD AND GARDEN WALL TO TERRACE AT HALSWAY MANOR, HALSWAY LANE
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- 2001-06-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/06315/16
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1057473
- Date first listed:
- 16-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Gatepiers, Gate, Boundary Wall Fronting Road and Garden Wall to Terrace at Halsway Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- GATEPIERS, GATE, BOUNDARY WALL FRONTING ROAD AND GARDEN WALL TO TERRACE AT HALSWAY MANOR, HALSWAY LANE
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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:
- GATEPIERS, GATE, BOUNDARY WALL FRONTING ROAD AND GARDEN WALL TO TERRACE AT HALSWAY MANOR, HALSWAY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bicknoller
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 12630 38152
Details
ST13NW BICKNOLLER CP HALSWAY LANE (North side) HIGHER HALSWAY
10/20 Gatepiers, gate, boundary wall fronting road and garden wall to terrace at Halsway Manor -
GV II
Gatepiers, gate and walls. Gatepiers. possibly C17, reset late C19. Ashlar sandstone, flat topped, square, cavetto moulded cornice, moulded plinth, incised decoration of arched head panels, about 2.25 metres high. Double gates swept down to centre, possibly mid C20, wrought iron, undulating spearhead uprights, horizontal band of enriched decoration above rondel panels with crosses. Walls: late C19. Ashlar red sandstone round headed arcades, fluted pilasters and imposts, moulded handrail and plinth set on random rubble dwarf wall, in all about 1.5 metres high, interspaced with piers, segmental headed with volutes and oval panels in tympanum, some with ball finials on pyramid supports. Random rubble wall only swept back flanking gateway and continued North West with arcades flanking road to wellhead (qv). Interrupted by short flight of steps with wall returned on either side to garden gate (not included) on axis of entrance to Halsway Manor (qv). Arcaded sections flanked by random rubble walls with simple ball topped piers fronting terrace in front of the house and partly returned on East side towards gatepiers and gate already described. Wall interrupted by short flight of steps, wall returned on either side, on axis of entrance to house. This wall probably originally encompassed the whole area between house and road. R M Billingtons article in Country Life, August 18, 1977 entitled A Somerset Draw for Painters - Victorian Artists at Halsway Manor, illustrates the house and garden before and after the C19 alterations.
Listing NGR: ST1263038152
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 265066
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Country Life in 18 August, (1977)
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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