Garden Wall, Gate Piers and Gate
GARDEN WALL, GATE PIERS AND GATE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1126983
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Garden Wall, Gate Piers and Gate
- Statutory Address:
- GARDEN WALL, GATE PIERS AND GATE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1126983
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Garden Wall, Gate Piers and Gate
- Statutory Address 1:
- GARDEN WALL, GATE PIERS AND GATE, HIGH STREET
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:
- GARDEN WALL, GATE PIERS AND GATE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- East Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Witcham
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 46446 80024
Details
TL 4680 WITCHAM HIGH STREET (North side)
13/52 Garden wall, gate piers and gate. 5.2.52 (formerly listed under The Hall including Barn, gates, and gatepiers)
GV II
Garden wall, gatepiers and gates. Early C18. Wall and piers are of C18 gault and red brick, mainly Flemish bond on the front but English in the wall to the yard. Red brick gate piers on gault brick base. Fine mortar joints to the piers and moulded stone cornice, now painted black and surmounted by stone urns with masks, swag enrichments and flame bursts from gadroon capping. Original wrought iron gate with side standards. Overthrow made up of two bifurcated scrolls meeting at a trident and decorated with nibs. Square section stiles, verticals and top and lockrail, the latter having a panel of S scrolls. The bottom rail carries a dograil of arrowheads. The flanking wall is of gault brick with a low stone gable coping. At the ends are piers, also of gault brick but with red brick quoins and similar coping. The side wall returning to the house is of alternating red and gault brick courses, English bond.
Listing NGR: TL4644680024
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 49582
- 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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