PAIR OF GATE PIERS AND STILES AT HIGH GATE

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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:: PAIR OF GATE PIERS AND STILES AT HIGH GATE

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Official list entry

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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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:: PAIR OF GATE PIERS AND STILES AT HIGH GATE

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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

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Legacy System number:: 66026
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Henderson, C, A History of the Parish of Constantine in Cornwall117

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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.