WALL, GATE PIERS AND RAILINGS TO INGRESS ABBEY FRONTING LONDON ROAD AND TURNING INTO THE AVENUE

WALL, GATE PIERS AND RAILINGS TO INGRESS ABBEY FRONTING LONDON ROAD AND TURNING INTO THE AVENUE, LONDON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1085786
Date first listed:: 17-Mar-1982
List Entry Name:: WALL, GATE PIERS AND RAILINGS TO INGRESS ABBEY FRONTING LONDON ROAD AND TURNING INTO THE AVENUE
Statutory Address:: WALL, GATE PIERS AND RAILINGS TO INGRESS ABBEY FRONTING LONDON ROAD AND TURNING INTO THE AVENUE, LONDON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1085786
Date first listed:: 17-Mar-1982
List Entry Name:: WALL, GATE PIERS AND RAILINGS TO INGRESS ABBEY FRONTING LONDON ROAD AND TURNING INTO THE AVENUE
Statutory Address 1:: WALL, GATE PIERS AND RAILINGS TO INGRESS ABBEY FRONTING LONDON ROAD AND TURNING INTO THE AVENUE, LONDON ROAD
Statutory Address 2:: WALL, GATE PIERS AND RAILINGS TO INGRESS ABBEY FRONTING LONDON ROAD AND TURNING INTO THE AVENUE, THE AVENUE

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:: WALL, GATE PIERS AND RAILINGS TO INGRESS ABBEY FRONTING LONDON ROAD AND TURNING INTO THE AVENUE, LONDON ROAD
Statutory Address:: WALL, GATE PIERS AND RAILINGS TO INGRESS ABBEY FRONTING LONDON ROAD AND TURNING INTO THE AVENUE, THE AVENUE

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

County:: Kent
District:: Dartford (District Authority)
Parish:: Swanscombe and Greenhithe
National Grid Reference:: TQ5891774821

Details

1. 5274 TQ 57 SE 4/100

SWANSCOMBE AND GREENHITHE LONDON ROAD (north side) Greenhithe Wall, gate piers and railings to Ingress Abbey fronting London Road and turning into The Avenue

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2. Early to mid C19. Coursed stone rubble wall about 5 ft in height with stone coping. At the junction with The Avenue there are 6 square stone gate piers with pyramidal caps separated by cast iron railings of Gothic form with embattled tops and trefoil and quatrefoil patterns. The wall along The Avenue has 2 similar gate piers separated by a length of cast iron railings, a section of stone wall about 20 ft in length and finally a section of wall of knapped flints about 6 ft high.

Listing NGR: TQ5891774821

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Legacy System number:: 172737
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.