Gateway and Flanking Walls at the East Entrance to Lanhydrock Park

GATEWAY AND FLANKING WALLS AT THE EAST ENTRANCE TO LANHYDROCK PARK

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1143097
Date first listed:
15-Apr-1988
List Entry Name:
Gateway and Flanking Walls at the East Entrance to Lanhydrock Park
Statutory Address:
GATEWAY AND FLANKING WALLS AT THE EAST ENTRANCE TO LANHYDROCK PARK
Gateway to Lanhydrock park.
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1143097
Date first listed:
15-Apr-1988
List Entry Name:
Gateway and Flanking Walls at the East Entrance to Lanhydrock Park
Statutory Address 1:
GATEWAY AND FLANKING WALLS AT THE EAST ENTRANCE TO LANHYDROCK PARK

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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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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
GATEWAY AND FLANKING WALLS AT THE EAST ENTRANCE TO LANHYDROCK PARK

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

District:
Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Lanhydrock
National Grid Reference:
SX0957063567

Details

LANHYDROCK LANHYDROCK PARK
SX 06 SE
9/86 Gateway and flanking walls at the
- east entrance to Lanhydrock Park

GV I

Gateway and flanking walls. Dated 1657 ILR, for John and Lucy Robartes. Granite and
slatestone rubble with granite dressings ; C20 wooden gates.
Plan: Central wide gateway, with piers, and flanking walls swept forward about 15
metres to terminal piers. At each side of the central gateway a pedestrian gateway.
Exterior: The central gateway has a pair of large square plan granite piers, with
roll-mouldings, undercut at the inner angle, with cornice; surmounted by obelisk with
ball finial. About 4 metres high overall. C20 wooden gate. The flanking walls are
in rubble, swept forward in a quadrant, about 3 metres high, increasing in height
with the slope of the ground towards the front. Square plan granite ashlar terminal
piers, surmounted by obelisks with ball finials. To each side of the main gateway, a
pedestrian arch with round slatestone arch, each with C20 wooden gate.


Listing NGR: SX0957063567

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Legacy System number:
67568
Legacy System:
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Sources

Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 8 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly,

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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