GATES AND GATEPIERS TO COMPTON PARK HOUSE, WITH 100 METRES OF WALL TO NORTH AND 75 METRES TO SOUTH

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1146152
Date first listed:: 17-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:: GATES AND GATEPIERS TO COMPTON PARK HOUSE, WITH 100 METRES OF WALL TO NORTH AND 75 METRES TO SOUTH
Statutory Address:: GATES AND GATEPIERS TO COMPTON PARK HOUSE, WITH 100 METRES OF WALL TO NORTH AND 75 METRES TO SOUTH

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Date:: 2001-06-30
Reference:: IOE01/06368/30
Rights:: © Mr Peter Letcher. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1146152
Date first listed:: 17-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:: GATES AND GATEPIERS TO COMPTON PARK HOUSE, WITH 100 METRES OF WALL TO NORTH AND 75 METRES TO SOUTH
Statutory Address 1:: GATES AND GATEPIERS TO COMPTON PARK HOUSE, WITH 100 METRES OF WALL TO NORTH AND 75 METRES TO SOUTH

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

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

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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Location

Statutory Address:: GATES AND GATEPIERS TO COMPTON PARK HOUSE, WITH 100 METRES OF WALL TO NORTH AND 75 METRES TO SOUTH

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District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Compton Chamberlayne
National Grid Reference:: SU 02914 30010

Details

SU 02 NW COMPTON CHAMBERLAYNE COMPTON PARK SU 03 SW (east side)

4/ & 1/137 Gates and gatepiers to Compton Park House, with loom of wall to north and 75m to south

GV II

Gates and gate piers to drive to south west of Compton Park House (q.v.), attached garden walls to north also bound churchyard (q.v.) on west side, continuing to south up to a second pair of gatepiers. Walls possibly C16, gatepiers C18. Driveway has dressed limestone square gatepiers with moulded cappings and good cast iron double gates with anthemions and spearheads, pedestrian gateway to right with Tudor-arched chamfered head. Gatepiers to south end of wall are square with ball finials. Wall between 2 and 3 metres high has pitched stone coping, partly replaced with concrete coping on south section, planked doorway in wall to south of main gates leads to churchyard. These walls are an important feature of the group of items around the Church of St Michael and Compton Park House at the north end of the village.

Listing NGR: SU0291430010

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Legacy System number:: 320723
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.