Gatepiers, Garden Walls, Railings and Sundial, Circa 30 Yards South of Overacres
GATEPIERS, GARDEN WALLS, RAILINGS AND SUNDIAL, CIRCA 30 YARDS SOUTH OF OVERACRES
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- 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)
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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