WALLS, GATE PIERS AND GATES APPROXIMATELY 80 METRES LONG, PARALLEL TO, AND 70 METRES NORTH OF ENTRANCE ELEVATION OF LEVENS HALL

WALLS, GATE PIERS AND GATES APPROXIMATELY 80 METRES LONG, PARALLEL TO, AND 70 METRES NORTH OF ENTRANCE ELEVATION OF LEVENS HALL, A6

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1145654
Date first listed:: 16-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: WALLS, GATE PIERS AND GATES APPROXIMATELY 80 METRES LONG, PARALLEL TO, AND 70 METRES NORTH OF ENTRANCE ELEVATION OF LEVENS HALL
Statutory Address:: WALLS, GATE PIERS AND GATES APPROXIMATELY 80 METRES LONG, PARALLEL TO, AND 70 METRES NORTH OF ENTRANCE ELEVATION OF LEVENS HALL, A6

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Date:: 2005-05-18
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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1145654
Date first listed:: 16-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: WALLS, GATE PIERS AND GATES APPROXIMATELY 80 METRES LONG, PARALLEL TO, AND 70 METRES NORTH OF ENTRANCE ELEVATION OF LEVENS HALL
Statutory Address 1:: WALLS, GATE PIERS AND GATES APPROXIMATELY 80 METRES LONG, PARALLEL TO, AND 70 METRES NORTH OF ENTRANCE ELEVATION OF LEVENS HALL, A6

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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Statutory Address:: WALLS, GATE PIERS AND GATES APPROXIMATELY 80 METRES LONG, PARALLEL TO, AND 70 METRES NORTH OF ENTRANCE ELEVATION OF LEVENS HALL, A6

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District:: Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Levens
National Grid Reference:: SD4954185173

Details

SD 48 NE 1/27

LEVENS A6 (off West side)

Walls, gate piers and gates approx. 80m long, parallel to, and 70m North of entrance elevation of Levens Hall (q.v.)

G.V. II

Walls, gate piers and gates. Probably c1700: similar walls shown on a 1720 plan of gardens appear to be part of Beaumont's original design for gardens of 1692. Rubble walls, with sandstone dressings. Central low portion has moulded copings surmounted by 4 corniced sandstone piers and timber balusters with moulded top and bottom rails and uprights set diagonally. Gateway at centre, flanked by rusticated sandstone piers with plinths and cornices, has later decorative wrought-iron gates with ramped tops and scrolled heads to standards. Each pier surmounted by stone vase; similar vases at intervals on wall. Small wrought-iron lattice-patterned gate at East end. See R.C.H.M. p155.

Listing NGR: SD4954185173

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Legacy System:: LBS

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 9 Cumbria,

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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.