Column,35 Metres East of Edleston House
COLUMN,35 METRES EAST OF EDLESTON HOUSE, SCHOOL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1159714
- Date first listed:
- 14-Sept-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Column,35 Metres East of Edleston House
- Statutory Address:
- COLUMN,35 METRES EAST OF EDLESTON HOUSE, SCHOOL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1159714
- Date first listed:
- 14-Sept-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Column,35 Metres East of Edleston House
- Statutory Address 1:
- COLUMN,35 METRES EAST OF EDLESTON HOUSE, SCHOOL LANE
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:
- COLUMN,35 METRES EAST OF EDLESTON HOUSE, SCHOOL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Gainford
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 16900 16673
Details
NZ 1616 - 1716 16891667 GAINFORD SCHOOL LANE (East side, off)
9/125 Column,35 metres 14.9.66 east of Edleston House (previously listed as column in the garden of Edleston Hall, West Edleston)
II
Commemorative column, c.1750. Erected by Sir Hugh Smithson at Stanwick Park, North Yorkshire, to commemorate the Peace of Aachen of 1748 and re-erected by Robert Edleston in 1923 in the grounds of Edleston House, Gainford. Sandstone ashlar. Tall, Roman Doric column on square-plan pedestal with moulded plinth and cornice. Column supports square-plan plinth and-stepped base (which formerly supported a statue, now destroyed).
Listing NGR: NZ1690016673
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111077
- 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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