GATEPIERS, GARDEN WALLS, RAILINGS AND SUNDIAL, CIRCA 30 YARDS SOUTH OF OVERACRES

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1156318
Date first listed:: 10-Nov-1951
List Entry Name:: GATEPIERS, GARDEN WALLS, RAILINGS AND SUNDIAL, CIRCA 30 YARDS SOUTH OF OVERACRES
Statutory Address:: GATEPIERS, GARDEN WALLS, RAILINGS AND SUNDIAL, CIRCA 30 YARDS SOUTH OF OVERACRES

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Date:: 2002-05-16
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1156318
Date first listed:: 10-Nov-1951
List Entry Name:: GATEPIERS, GARDEN WALLS, RAILINGS AND SUNDIAL, CIRCA 30 YARDS SOUTH OF OVERACRES
Statutory Address 1:: GATEPIERS, GARDEN WALLS, RAILINGS AND SUNDIAL, CIRCA 30 YARDS SOUTH OF OVERACRES

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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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:: GATEPIERS, GARDEN WALLS, RAILINGS AND SUNDIAL, CIRCA 30 YARDS SOUTH OF OVERACRES

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

District:: Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Otterburn
National Grid Reference:: NY 90847 93058

Details

OTTERBURN OVERACRES NY 99 SW 26/52 Gatepiers, garden 10.11.51 walls, railings and sundial, c.30 yards south of Overacres GV II*

Gatepiers with flanking walls, railings and end pier with sundial. 1720 possibly re-set, for the Howards of Redesdale.

Tall, rusticated corniced piers with the Howard crest set in foliage trails below the friezes. Friezes each have a wild-man mask flanked by rosettes. Large urns with festoons, swags and heads, capped by pineapple finials. On the inner face of each pier the date MDCCXX in a moulded panel.

Flanked by short walls c.3ft high with corniced coping and simple spiked railings.

To left a square, corniced end pier, bearing a multi-faceted sundial on a Corinthian capital and with a ball finial.

Northumberland County History Vol. XV.

Listing NGR: NY9084793058

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Legacy System number:: 239712
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Dodds Hope, M, 'A History of Northumberland' in The Parish of Simonburn Modern Parishes Humshaugh Bellingham Falstone Thorneyburn with Greystead Wark Rothbury Alwinton Chapely Holstone Lordship Kila, , Vol. 15, (1940)

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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.