Gates, railings and piers forming Princes Gate

Princes Gate, Silk Street, Waddesdon

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1096093
Date first listed:: 17-Apr-2003
List Entry Name:: Gates, railings and piers forming Princes Gate
Statutory Address:: Princes Gate, Silk Street, Waddesdon

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1096093
Date first listed:: 17-Apr-2003
List Entry Name:: Gates, railings and piers forming Princes Gate
Statutory Address 1:: Princes Gate, Silk Street, Waddesdon

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:: Princes Gate, Silk Street, Waddesdon

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

District:: Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Waddesdon
National Grid Reference:: SP 74203 16667

Details

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WADDESDON SILK STREET Gates, railings and piers forming Princes Gate

17-APR-03

GV II Gates, railing and piers at Waddesdon Village entrance to Waddesdon Manor. c.1880-99 for Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild. Wrought iron and richly gilded gates and railings comprise from centre, double gates to centre with scrolls, rosettes and fan upper part crowned with elaborate scroll; fixed railing panels with elaborate scrolled panel, capped with cornice and tall scroll; and pedestrian gates, similarly detailed, with curved top and scroll. Square brick piers with stone plinth, band and cornice on which sits a stone dog finial on stone base.

HISTORY: the gates form entrance on the approach to Waddesdon Manor (built 1874-83 for Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild by H.A. Destailleur) from the village of Waddesdon, which was substantially rebuilt by Ferdinand de Rothschild in the late C19.

The gates were removed by the M.o.D. and put into store during World War II. They were replaced on the existing piers in 1995 with slight modifications to allow for modern access requirements.

Group value with the adjacent Princes Lodge (q.v.) and Nos. 1 and 2 Silk Street (q.v.). These elaborate gates and their piers form an important component of the estate of the Grade I Waddesdon Manor (q.v.)

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Legacy System number:: 490058
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.