Pair of Gate Piers and Stiles at High Gate
PAIR OF GATE PIERS AND STILES AT HIGH GATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1158889
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Pair of Gate Piers and Stiles at High Gate
- Statutory Address:
- PAIR OF GATE PIERS AND STILES AT HIGH GATE
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- Date:
- 2002-08-03
- Reference:
- IOE01/07968/09
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1158889
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Pair of Gate Piers and Stiles at High Gate
- Statutory Address 1:
- PAIR OF GATE PIERS AND STILES AT HIGH GATE
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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:
- PAIR OF GATE PIERS AND STILES AT HIGH GATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Constantine
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 72622 27352
Details
SW 72 NW CONSTANTINE
8/40 Pair of gate-piers and stiles at - High Gate, Merthen
II
Pair of gate-piers at drive entrance to Merthen qv and adjoining stiles and seats. Probably C17, the left (east) post replaced in C20. Tall granite monoliths about 2 metres high. The lower sections are rectangular on plan and the upper sections are octagonal with pyramid stops and have chamfered tops. The new left hand post is not quite a facsimile of the original right hand post which is roughly hewn on the outer side of the lower section, suggesting that originally it would have been set against the hedge (bank) before the granite grid stiles were built either side of the posts. The bank at either side has a dressed granite retaining wall incorporating a stone seat facing the stile. The right hand (west) post has a bench mark on its base. There was once an avenue from this gateway leading south to Merthen (Henderson). Source: Charles Henderson. A History of the Parish of Constantine in Cornwall. page 117.
Listing NGR: SW7262227352
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 66026
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Henderson, C, A History of the Parish of Constantine in Cornwall, (1937), 117
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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