Stable Block and Gatehouses to East of Ravensworth Castle
STABLE BLOCK AND GATEHOUSES TO EAST OF RAVENSWORTH CASTLE, CROSS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1185160
- Date first listed:
- 18-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Stable Block and Gatehouses to East of Ravensworth Castle
- Statutory Address:
- STABLE BLOCK AND GATEHOUSES TO EAST OF RAVENSWORTH CASTLE, CROSS LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1185160
- Date first listed:
- 18-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Stable Block and Gatehouses to East of Ravensworth Castle
- Statutory Address 1:
- STABLE BLOCK AND GATEHOUSES TO EAST OF RAVENSWORTH CASTLE, CROSS LANE
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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:
- STABLE BLOCK AND GATEHOUSES TO EAST OF RAVENSWORTH CASTLE, CROSS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Gateshead (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Lamesley
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 23316 59179
Details
NZ 25 NW LAMESLEY CROSS LANE (south side, off)
11/64 Stable block and gatehouses to east of Ravensworth Castle. G.V. II
Stables, arches and towers. Circa 1840. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings; roof of graduated Westmorland slate. Gothick style. Eastern gate house: spiked and studded double gate in buttressed double chamfered 4-centred arch flanked by octagonal towers of three storeys and one bay with lancet windows to ground and first floor. Later infill over gate has 3-light stone transomed and mullioned window with label mould; crenellated parapet on corbels; square towers set back have pyramidal Westmorland slate roofs. West elevation shows 4-light stone mullioned and transomed window and a corbelled parapet above arch. Octagonal clock tower over western arch entrance to stable block. Stable ranges around courtyard have stone mullioned and transomed windows, coped buttresses and Tudor arches; some original doors and stable fittings. Western range has square tower with pointed arches in upper stages and coped crenellated parapets at north-west corner.
Listing NGR: NZ2331659179
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 303830
- 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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