Garden Gate, Piers and Wall Immediately North of Eighteenth Century Wing of High Head Castle

GARDEN GATE, PIERS AND WALL IMMEDIATELY NORTH OF EIGHTEENTH CENTURY WING OF HIGH HEAD CASTLE

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1145452
Date first listed:
27-Dec-1967
Statutory Address:
GARDEN GATE, PIERS AND WALL IMMEDIATELY NORTH OF EIGHTEENTH CENTURY WING OF HIGH HEAD CASTLE
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Date:
2002-09-02
Reference:
IOE01/08782/30
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© Mr Gordon Furness. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1145452
Date first listed:
27-Dec-1967
Statutory Address 1:
GARDEN GATE, PIERS AND WALL IMMEDIATELY NORTH OF EIGHTEENTH CENTURY WING OF HIGH HEAD CASTLE

Location

Statutory Address:
GARDEN GATE, PIERS AND WALL IMMEDIATELY NORTH OF EIGHTEENTH CENTURY WING OF HIGH HEAD CASTLE

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

District:
Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Skelton
National Grid Reference:
NY 40280 43369

Details

NY 44 SW SKELTON HIGH HEAD

5/218 Garden gate, piers and wall immediately 27.12.67 north of C18 wing of High Head Castle

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Gate piers and wall in front of High Head Castle. 1744-7. Red sandstone ashlar with calciferous sandstone dressings. Central square rusticated gate piers with front paired engaged fluted columns and rear pilastered niches, under shaped caps. Flanking low walls with moulded flat coping, ending at either side in further rusticated square piers. The winged figures which formerly surmounted the central piers have been moved to another location.

Listing NGR: NY4028043369

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