GATES GATEPIERS AND WALL ABUTTING AT ENTRANCE OF RUISHTON HOUSE

GATES GATEPIERS AND WALL ABUTTING AT ENTRANCE OF RUISHTON HOUSE, A358

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1176960
Date first listed:: 21-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:: GATES GATEPIERS AND WALL ABUTTING AT ENTRANCE OF RUISHTON HOUSE
Statutory Address:: GATES GATEPIERS AND WALL ABUTTING AT ENTRANCE OF RUISHTON HOUSE, A358

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Date:: 1999-10-11
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1176960
Date first listed:: 21-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:: GATES GATEPIERS AND WALL ABUTTING AT ENTRANCE OF RUISHTON HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: GATES GATEPIERS AND WALL ABUTTING AT ENTRANCE OF RUISHTON HOUSE, A358

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:: GATES GATEPIERS AND WALL ABUTTING AT ENTRANCE OF RUISHTON HOUSE, A358

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Ruishton
National Grid Reference:: ST 26092 24623

Details

RUISHTON CP A358 (South side) ST22SE

5/112 Gates, gatepiers and wall abutting, at entrance of Ruishton House -

GV II

Gates, gatepiers and walls. Circa 1893. Probably by Mr Spiller for Stuart Somerville. Gates: double wrought iron of ornate design with lavish scroll work and rosettes. Gatepiers: thin red bricks and Portland stone; ball finials, strongly moulded cornice, central band of stone work, moulded plinth, scroll headed buttresses from which gates are hung. Wall: standard size red brick, Flemish bond, flat stone coping, curved out from gatepiers with end pilasters, about 500 m high. A handsome ensemble.

Listing NGR: ST2609224623

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Legacy System number:: 270887
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.