Churchyard Wall With Hearse House and Entrance Gateway
CHURCHYARD WALL WITH HEARSE HOUSE AND ENTRANCE GATEWAY, WATLING STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1155512
- Date first listed:
- 24-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Churchyard Wall With Hearse House and Entrance Gateway
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCHYARD WALL WITH HEARSE HOUSE AND ENTRANCE GATEWAY, WATLING STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1155512
- Date first listed:
- 24-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Churchyard Wall With Hearse House and Entrance Gateway
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCHYARD WALL WITH HEARSE HOUSE AND ENTRANCE GATEWAY, WATLING STREET
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:
- CHURCHYARD WALL WITH HEARSE HOUSE AND ENTRANCE GATEWAY, WATLING STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Corbridge
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 98811 64426
Details
CORBRIDGE WATLING STREET NY 9864 (east side)
21/208 Churchyard wall with hearse house and entrance gateway
GV II
Churchyard wall with hearse house and entrance gateway. C18, incorporating earlier fabric. Rubble with dressings; Lakeland slate roof to hearse house. Wall with arched coping ramped up on either side of gateway which has square piers with attached jambs and low pyramidal caps. At left wall ramped up again to hearse house which has window of 2 pointed-arched lights. Wall beyond ramped down again and linked to St Andrew's Cottage (qv). Wall of 17 metres length right of gateway incorporates footings of an earlier structure.
Rear elevation of hearse house shows large roughly-shaped angle quoins and boarded double doors; pent roof.
Adjacent to hearse house on west lies pavement of communal oven, 'King's Oven', first recorded in 1310 and last used in C19.
Listing NGR: NY9881164422
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 239969
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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