ENTRANCE GATEWAY TO WINDLESTONE HALL, WITH PIERS, QUADRANT WALLS AND GATES

ENTRANCE GATEWAY TO WINDLESTONE HALL, WITH PIERS, QUADRANT WALLS AND GATES, A689

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1160316
Date first listed:: 09-Jan-1968
List Entry Name:: ENTRANCE GATEWAY TO WINDLESTONE HALL, WITH PIERS, QUADRANT WALLS AND GATES
Statutory Address:: ENTRANCE GATEWAY TO WINDLESTONE HALL, WITH PIERS, QUADRANT WALLS AND GATES, A689

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1160316
Date first listed:: 09-Jan-1968
List Entry Name:: ENTRANCE GATEWAY TO WINDLESTONE HALL, WITH PIERS, QUADRANT WALLS AND GATES
Statutory Address 1:: ENTRANCE GATEWAY TO WINDLESTONE HALL, WITH PIERS, QUADRANT WALLS AND GATES, A689

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:: ENTRANCE GATEWAY TO WINDLESTONE HALL, WITH PIERS, QUADRANT WALLS AND GATES, A689

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

District:: County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Windlestone
National Grid Reference:: NZ 26536 28976

Details

NZ 22 NE WINDLESTONE A 689 (South side) Windlestone Park

9/86 Entrance gateway to 9/1/68 Windlestone Hall, with piers, quadrant walls and gates GV II

Quadrant walls, piers and gates at north entrance to Windlestone Hall. Probably early C19; walls altered. Sandstone ashlar piers and walls; wrought iron gates. C18 style. Segmental-topped dwarf walls with chamfered rustication: raised, and coping re-used. Pyramidal coping on front square piers; wide cornices and ball finials on gate piers. Gates swept up to outer ends have top and bottom bands of quatrefoils linking massive spear-headed uprights of octagonal section.

Listing NGR: NZ2653628976

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Legacy System number:: 112286
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.