GATE POSTS AND GATE APPROXIMATELY 140 METRES SOUTH EAST OF WOOD HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1106029
Date first listed:: 04-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: GATE POSTS AND GATE APPROXIMATELY 140 METRES SOUTH EAST OF WOOD HOUSE
Statutory Address:: GATE POSTS AND GATE APPROXIMATELY 140 METRES SOUTH EAST OF WOOD HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1106029
Date first listed:: 04-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: GATE POSTS AND GATE APPROXIMATELY 140 METRES SOUTH EAST OF WOOD HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: GATE POSTS AND GATE APPROXIMATELY 140 METRES SOUTH EAST OF WOOD HOUSE

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: GATE POSTS AND GATE APPROXIMATELY 140 METRES SOUTH EAST OF WOOD HOUSE

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

County:: Devon
District:: West Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: South Tawton
National Grid Reference:: SX6572895884

Details

SX 69 NE SOUTH TAWTON

1/186 Gate posts and gates approximately 140 metres south-east of Wood House GV II*

Gate posts and gates between farm drive and landscaped gardens. 1899-1905 by Thomas Mawson. Granite ashlar posts and wrought iron gates. The gate posts are square in section with chamfered plinths and soffit-moulded flat caps. The double gates are hung on wrought iron piers. They are fall height with double lockbar enriched with scrolls and have dograils of arrowheads. Alternative rails are twisted. Other fleur-de-lys and scroll ornament and ornate central crestwork in the manner of an overthrow. This gateway is part of an extensive landscaping scheme conceived by Mawson to go with the rebuilding of Wood House. Mawson himself considered the whole scheme as one of his major achievements. Source: T H Mawson The Art and Craft of Garden Making, (5th edition) includes copious notes and illustrations of Wood House.

Listing NGR: SX6572895884

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 94983
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Mawson, T H, The Art and Craft of Garden Making, (1907)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 11 Devon,

Legal

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