GATES, GATEPIERS AND FLANKING WALLS AT ENTRANCE TO VILLIERS LIMITED

GATES, GATEPIERS AND FLANKING WALLS AT ENTRANCE TO VILLIERS LIMITED, MARSTON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1187250
Date first listed:: 01-Sep-1989
List Entry Name:: GATES, GATEPIERS AND FLANKING WALLS AT ENTRANCE TO VILLIERS LIMITED
Statutory Address:: GATES, GATEPIERS AND FLANKING WALLS AT ENTRANCE TO VILLIERS LIMITED, MARSTON ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1187250
Date first listed:: 01-Sep-1989
List Entry Name:: GATES, GATEPIERS AND FLANKING WALLS AT ENTRANCE TO VILLIERS LIMITED
Statutory Address 1:: GATES, GATEPIERS AND FLANKING WALLS AT ENTRANCE TO VILLIERS LIMITED, MARSTON ROAD

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: GATES, GATEPIERS AND FLANKING WALLS AT ENTRANCE TO VILLIERS LIMITED, MARSTON ROAD

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

District:: City of Wolverhampton (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SO9107297368

Details

WOLVERHAMPTON

SO99NW MARSTON ROAD 895-1/5/33 (South side) 01/09/89 Gates, Gatepiers and Flanking Walls at Entrance to Villiers Limited

II

Gates, gate piers and flanking walls extending approx 17.5m. 1765; by 'Capability' Brown; moved from original position in Tong, Shropshire, 1977. Squared and coursed sandstone. Latticed wrought iron gates with triangular heads and fleurs-de-lys; piers have shallow trefoil-headed niches and pinnacles with vine crockets and pineapple finials; pier to left inscribed: POSTERITATI/SACRUM/IMPENSIS/GEO.DURANT AR/1821 (Dedicated to his descendants at the expense of Geo. Durant, 1821); each pier encircled by loosely knotted carved rope, which is continued round embattled parapets of flanking curved walls; end piers similar to others but ball finials now missing at time of resurvey (1990); piers have relief symbols e.g. cross, cornucopia, hive, flower, shells; walls have nowy-headed niches with gadrooned bases, Tuscan columns and segmental-headed hoods. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Shropshire: London: P.304; Griffith G: History of Tong and Boscobel: 1894-: P.154-61).

Listing NGR: SO9107297368

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 378479
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Griffith, G, History of Tong and Boscobel, (1894), 154 61
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958), 304

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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.