Carrmire Gates Wall and End Turrets
CARRMIRE GATES WALL AND END TURRETS, CASTLE HOWARD STRAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1174223
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Carrmire Gates Wall and End Turrets
- Statutory Address:
- CARRMIRE GATES WALL AND END TURRETS, CASTLE HOWARD STRAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1174223
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Carrmire Gates Wall and End Turrets
- Statutory Address 1:
- CARRMIRE GATES WALL AND END TURRETS, CASTLE HOWARD STRAY
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
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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.
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:
- CARRMIRE GATES WALL AND END TURRETS, CASTLE HOWARD STRAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bulmer
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Welburn
- National Grid Reference:
- SE7122968497
Details
NORTH YORKSHIRE RYDALE 5340
SE 76 NW BULMER CASTLE HOWARD STRAY
4/5 Carrmire Gates and Wall and end turrets 25.1.54 (Formerly listed as Carrmire Gate, Castle Howard) GV I
Gateway to Castle Howard demesne, and flanking wall with end turrets. Early C18 by Vanbrugh or Hawksmoor. Limestone rubble brough to course. Round- arched triple-keyed gateway beneath open pediment flanked by square rusticated piers each surmounted by pyramids. Battlemented wall to either side running approximately 30 metres and terminating in buttressed circular 2-stage mock medieval turrets with cruciform arrow slits and battlements. Pevsner "Yorkshire: The North Riding" 1966.
Listing NGR: SE7122068544
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 329495
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The North Riding, (1966)
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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