GATE PIERS TO WEST AND GARDEN WALL TO SOUTH WEST AND NORTH OF THE PRIORY

GATE PIERS TO WEST AND GARDEN WALL TO SOUTH WEST AND NORTH OF THE PRIORY, THE AVENUE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1190984
Date first listed:: 27-Aug-1987
List Entry Name:: GATE PIERS TO WEST AND GARDEN WALL TO SOUTH WEST AND NORTH OF THE PRIORY
Statutory Address:: GATE PIERS TO WEST AND GARDEN WALL TO SOUTH WEST AND NORTH OF THE PRIORY, THE AVENUE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1190984
Date first listed:: 27-Aug-1987
List Entry Name:: GATE PIERS TO WEST AND GARDEN WALL TO SOUTH WEST AND NORTH OF THE PRIORY
Statutory Address 1:: GATE PIERS TO WEST AND GARDEN WALL TO SOUTH WEST AND NORTH OF THE PRIORY, THE AVENUE

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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: GATE PIERS TO WEST AND GARDEN WALL TO SOUTH WEST AND NORTH OF THE PRIORY, THE AVENUE

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

District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Nun Monkton
National Grid Reference:: SE 51151 57873

Details

SE 55 NW NUN MONKTON THE AVENUE (east end)

2/26 date piers to west and garden wall to south, west and north of The Priory

GV II

Gate piers and garden wall. C19 with incorporation of sections of medieval wall. Limestone ashlar piers, brick and dressed gritstone walls. Cruciform piers approximately 4 metres in height. Moulded bases and cornices surmounted by pineapple finials. Wall approximately 100 metres in length to south, 75 metres to west and 20 metres to north. Both north and south sections include medieval stone, that to south probably reused, but that to north possibly part of an original medieval wall of the Benedictine nunnery of Nun Monkton. Approximately 3 metres in height with C20 concrete coping.

Listing NGR: SE5115257869

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 331668
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.