GARDEN WALLS AND GATE PIERS TO SOUTH OF THORNTON HALL

GARDEN WALLS AND GATE PIERS TO SOUTH OF THORNTON HALL, B6279

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1121222
Date first listed:: 16-Jul-1986
List Entry Name:: GARDEN WALLS AND GATE PIERS TO SOUTH OF THORNTON HALL
Statutory Address:: GARDEN WALLS AND GATE PIERS TO SOUTH OF THORNTON HALL, B6279

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1121222
Date first listed:: 16-Jul-1986
List Entry Name:: GARDEN WALLS AND GATE PIERS TO SOUTH OF THORNTON HALL
Statutory Address 1:: GARDEN WALLS AND GATE PIERS TO SOUTH OF THORNTON HALL, B6279
Statutory Address 2:: GARDEN WALLS AND GATE PIERS TO SOUTH OF THORNTON HALL, STAINDROP ROAD

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:: GARDEN WALLS AND GATE PIERS TO SOUTH OF THORNTON HALL, B6279
Statutory Address:: GARDEN WALLS AND GATE PIERS TO SOUTH OF THORNTON HALL, STAINDROP ROAD

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

District:: Darlington (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: High Coniscliffe
National Grid Reference:: NZ 23778 16922

Details

NZ 21 NW HIGH CONISCLIFFE B6279 (Staindrop Road) (North side, off) 5/108 Garden walls and gate piers to south of Thornton Hall GV II Garden walls and gate piers. Probably C17 walls and early C18 piers. Coursed rubble walls and ashlar piers. Tall, partly rebuilt wall with flat coping adjoins wing on west return of hall. Wall runs west for 15 metres then south to main road for 100 metres. Tudor- arched C19 doorway near north-west corner. Low rebuilt quadrant walls, with central gate piers, linking west wall to outer wall enclosing south paddock (q.v.). Pair of tall rebated piers have chamfered rustication and corniced caps with rounded pyramidal finials. Cross wall in front of hall garden is not of special interest. Indluded for group value.

Listing NGR: NZ2377816922

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Legacy System number:: 110831
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.