PAIR OF GATE PIERS IN GARDEN EAST OF DOWNHAM HALL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1072127
Date first listed:: 27-Apr-1984
List Entry Name:: PAIR OF GATE PIERS IN GARDEN EAST OF DOWNHAM HALL
Statutory Address:: PAIR OF GATE PIERS IN GARDEN EAST OF DOWNHAM HALL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1072127
Date first listed:: 27-Apr-1984
List Entry Name:: PAIR OF GATE PIERS IN GARDEN EAST OF DOWNHAM HALL
Statutory Address 1:: PAIR OF GATE PIERS IN GARDEN EAST OF DOWNHAM HALL

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: PAIR OF GATE PIERS IN GARDEN EAST OF DOWNHAM HALL

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

County:: Lancashire
District:: Ribble Valley (District Authority)
Parish:: Downham
National Grid Reference:: SD 78361 44328

Details

SD 78 44 DOWNHAM

13/10 Pair of gate piers in garden east of Downham Hall - GV II

Pair of columns re-used as gate piers, c.1600. Sandstone ashlar. Each has a fluted shaft, foliated neck, and egg-and-dart abacus. Said to be part of the doorcase from a house on the site of Downham Hall (q.v.), part of which is incorporated into the present house. Whitaker, T.D. A History of the Original Parish of Whalley. 4th ed., 1876, vol. II, p.119,n.l.

Listing NGR: SD7836144328

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 183329
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Whitaker, T D, A History of the Original Parish of Whalley, (1876), 119

Legal

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