Gateway and Flanking Walls to Hodnet Hall Approximately 18 Metres to South West of Church of Saint Luke
GATEWAY AND FLANKING WALLS TO HODNET HALL APPROXIMATELY 18 METRES TO SOUTH WEST OF CHURCH OF SAINT LUKE, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176248
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Gateway and Flanking Walls to Hodnet Hall Approximately 18 Metres to South West of Church of Saint Luke
- Statutory Address:
- GATEWAY AND FLANKING WALLS TO HODNET HALL APPROXIMATELY 18 METRES TO SOUTH WEST OF CHURCH OF SAINT LUKE, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176248
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Gateway and Flanking Walls to Hodnet Hall Approximately 18 Metres to South West of Church of Saint Luke
- Statutory Address 1:
- GATEWAY AND FLANKING WALLS TO HODNET HALL APPROXIMATELY 18 METRES TO SOUTH WEST OF CHURCH OF SAINT LUKE, CHURCH STREET
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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:
- GATEWAY AND FLANKING WALLS TO HODNET HALL APPROXIMATELY 18 METRES TO SOUTH WEST OF CHURCH OF SAINT LUKE, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hodnet
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 61214 28574
Details
HODNET C.P. CHURCH STREET SJ 6028-6128 13/47 Gateway and flanking walls - to Hodnet Hall approx. 18 metres to south-west of Church of Saint Luke
GV II
Gateway and flanking walls. Dated 1887, probably by Anthony Salvin. Grey sandstone ashlar. Neo-Jacobean style. East side: flanking buttresses with chamfered offsets and chamfered reveals, banded rustication above returned as voussoirs, and raised keystone with Ionic volutes and inscription: "ESPERANCE / EN DIEU / 1954" (earlier lettering just visible beneath:" ? / CORVOS / 1887". Frieze with raised rectangular panels, and open triangular pediment resting on brackets and with central globe finial in tympanum. Keystone at rear with carved family crest. Flanking walls of tooled ashlar with ramped chamfered copings and square end piers with moulded caps and globe finials. The gateway is similar to one dated 1631 and 1954 in Hodnet Park (q.v.). Hodnet was formerly the seat of the Vernons. The present building (not included on this list) dates from 1870. B.O.E., p. 151.
Listing NGR: SJ6121428572
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 260200
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958), 151
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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