Wall, Gate Piers and Railings to West of Middleton Hall
WALL, GATE PIERS AND RAILINGS TO WEST OF MIDDLETON HALL, MIDDLETON HALL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197237
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Wall, Gate Piers and Railings to West of Middleton Hall
- Statutory Address:
- WALL, GATE PIERS AND RAILINGS TO WEST OF MIDDLETON HALL, MIDDLETON HALL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197237
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Wall, Gate Piers and Railings to West of Middleton Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- WALL, GATE PIERS AND RAILINGS TO WEST OF MIDDLETON HALL, MIDDLETON HALL LANE
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.
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:
- WALL, GATE PIERS AND RAILINGS TO WEST OF MIDDLETON HALL, MIDDLETON HALL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Brentwood (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 60078 94070
Details
BRENTWOOD
TQ69SW MIDDLETON HALL LANE 723-1/9/92 (East side) Wall, gate piers and railings to west of Middleton Hall
GV II
Railings, wall and gate piers to Middleton Hall (qv). C18. Iron railings on dwarf wall; main wall of red brick. Iron railings: 32m long abutting wall to S 59m long and 2.1m high with S gateway. Railings on cement rendered dwarf wall with Portland stone coping, C20 cement fillet additionally set round base of railings. Supporting sections with rear stays have wrought-iron `s' shaped scroll work and twisted flat finials, intermediate railings have square sectioned spear points. Wall: of red brick, Flemish bond with shaped brick coping. 2 intermediate simple brick piers with Portland stone copings, also pilaster buttresses. Inner side of wall flush along length. Gateway: has 2 outer piers 12.8m apart and 2 inner piers 6.4m apart, linked by quadrant walls, gates and iron supports absent. Piers square section of gauged brickwork, finely bedded with rustication by projecting Portland stone blocks, 4 to each pier. Outer piers have deep stone caps with shallow pyramidal tops and a surrounding frieze of upper and lower ovolo mouldings with prominent triglyphs and guttae central on each face, mouldings breaking forward round triglyph. Rear piers similar to those at front but stone caps missing and replaced by plain C20 brickwork. Quadrant walls have been rebuilt and have simple brick coping. Wall continues S of gateway but is not included in this listing as rebuilt in C20. The wall and railings and garden wall east (qv) form a group with Middleton Hall (qv).
Listing NGR: TQ6007894070
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 373506
- 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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