Main and Side Gates and Four Gate Piers to South East of Kimbolton School
MAIN AND SIDE GATES AND FOUR GATE PIERS TO SOUTH EAST OF KIMBOLTON SCHOOL, LONDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1210891
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Main and Side Gates and Four Gate Piers to South East of Kimbolton School
- Statutory Address:
- MAIN AND SIDE GATES AND FOUR GATE PIERS TO SOUTH EAST OF KIMBOLTON SCHOOL, LONDON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1210891
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 28-Apr-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Main and Side Gates and Four Gate Piers to South East of Kimbolton School
- Statutory Address 1:
- MAIN AND SIDE GATES AND FOUR GATE PIERS TO SOUTH EAST OF KIMBOLTON SCHOOL, LONDON ROAD
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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:
- MAIN AND SIDE GATES AND FOUR GATE PIERS TO SOUTH EAST OF KIMBOLTON SCHOOL, LONDON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kimbolton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 10427 67519
Details
KIMBOLTON LONDON ROAD TL 1067-1167 (SOUTH SIDE) 7/22 MAIN AND SIDE GATES 24.10.51 AND FOUR GATE PIERS TO SOUTH EAST OF KIMBOLTON SCHOOL (FORMERLY LISTED AS GATES TO ST. NEOTS ROAD) II* Early C18. Four square section piers of rusticated stone ashlar on plinth and with entablature having on south side, mid C18 frieze decorated with festoons, drops and paterae. Moulded cornice and shallow pyramidal finials. Early C18 gates of wrought iron surmounted by scrolls, arabesques and full achievements of Montagu coat of arms. Two inner piers linked to outer piers by wall of coursed and dressed stone with moulded cornice and parapet. Moulded architraves to openings for side gates. The gates and piers were probably originally at the east entrance to the Park in Park Lane and removed to their present location in c.1763-66. Cosmo Wallace: 1763 Map of Kimbolton (Huntingdon R.O. SF457). VCH (Hunts) Vol. III. RCHM (Hunts) p171. Pevsner: Buildings of England, p281. (published by Kimbolton School). A.T. Bolton: The Architecture of Robert and James Adam 1758-94. Vol I, p65.
Listing NGR: TL1042767519
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 395468
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Huntingdonshire, (1926), 171
Page, W, Proby, G, The Victoria History of the County of Huntingdon, (1936)
Bolton, A T, The Architecture of Robert and James Adam 1758-94, (1922), 65
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough, (1968), 281
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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