Walls Gate Piers and Pigsty to West and North of Trafalgar House
WALLS GATE PIERS AND PIGSTY TO WEST AND NORTH OF TRAFALGAR HOUSE, HEIGHINGTON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121211
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Walls Gate Piers and Pigsty to West and North of Trafalgar House
- Statutory Address:
- WALLS GATE PIERS AND PIGSTY TO WEST AND NORTH OF TRAFALGAR HOUSE, HEIGHINGTON LANE
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- Date:
- 2001-08-11
- Reference:
- IOE01/05029/33
- Rights:
- © Mr Alan Bradley. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121211
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Walls Gate Piers and Pigsty to West and North of Trafalgar House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WALLS GATE PIERS AND PIGSTY TO WEST AND NORTH OF TRAFALGAR HOUSE, HEIGHINGTON LANE
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.
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:
- WALLS GATE PIERS AND PIGSTY TO WEST AND NORTH OF TRAFALGAR HOUSE, HEIGHINGTON LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Darlington (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Heighington
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 25150 22467
Details
NZ 2522 HEIGHINGTON HEIGHINGTON LANE (South side) 11/52 Walls, gate piers and pigsty to west and north of Trafalgar House GV II Garden and boundary walls, 2 sets of gate piers and pigsty. Circa 1815. Dressed sandstone garden walls with brick inner faces. Rubble perimeter wall with ashlar gate piers. Squared rubble pigsty with pantiled roof. L-plan. Tall flat-coped garden walls, west and north of Trafalgar House, enclose 3 sides of garden. Inner faces in English garden wall bond (3 and 1). 50-metre long west wall has quadrant ramp to north and tooled-and-margined quoins at south. 20-metre long north wall. 25-metre long east wall, on rear of dovecote (q.v.) has quadrant ramp and lower return section to house. Tall 90-metre long boundary wall, north of Trafalgar House, runs east from north-east corner of garden walls. Raked-down sections and triangular coping stones. 2 sets of tall gate piers: those at west with shallow rounded caps; those at east end, flanking main drive, with offset caps and quadrant linking walls. Lean-to pigsty, on inner face of boundary wall near centre, has 2 boarded doors, 2 partly-ruined flat-coped yard walls and a low monopitch roof with coped ends. Rubble extension wall, on south end of west garden wall, and lower rubble wall beyond eastern gate piers are not of special interest. Included for group value.
Listing NGR: NZ2515022467
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 110803
- 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.
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