Pair of Gate Piers 204 Metres East of Entrance to Home Farm
PAIR OF GATE PIERS 204 METRES EAST OF ENTRANCE TO HOME FARM, PARK LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1136042
- Date first listed:
- 06-Mar-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Pair of Gate Piers 204 Metres East of Entrance to Home Farm
- Statutory Address:
- PAIR OF GATE PIERS 204 METRES EAST OF ENTRANCE TO HOME FARM, PARK LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1136042
- Date first listed:
- 06-Mar-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Pair of Gate Piers 204 Metres East of Entrance to Home Farm
- Statutory Address 1:
- PAIR OF GATE PIERS 204 METRES EAST OF ENTRANCE TO HOME FARM, PARK 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:
- PAIR OF GATE PIERS 204 METRES EAST OF ENTRANCE TO HOME FARM, PARK LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hampstead Marshall
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 41918 66685
Details
SU 46 NW HAMSTEAD MARSHALL PARK LANE (East Side)
15/9 Pair of Gate piers 204 metres East of Entrance to Home Farm
I
Gate piers. Early C18. Brick with stone dressings. Pair of tall square piers with stone plinth bases and moulded stone plinth caps. Stone corniced caps surmounted by stone vases with carved swags, flowers and fruit. east and west faces have arched niches above plinths with stone strings at impost level, stone keys and stone shells in arches, moulded stone panels above niches. north and south faces have brick pilasters for gate hanging, walls or railings, capped by stone moulded cornices and scrolls. Northern pier now attached to low wall of no special interest. Gate piers to the former Manor House built for the Earl of Craven by Sir Balthazar Gerbier and William Wynne, and burnt down in 1718. B.O.E. Berkshire p.152, Murray's Berkshire Architectural Guide p.127.
Listing NGR: SU4191866685
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 39773
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 152
Murrays Architectural Guide in Berkshire, (1949), 127
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 3 Berkshire,
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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