GATE PIERS AND WALLS IN FRONT OF PONTOP HALL

GATE PIERS AND WALLS IN FRONT OF PONTOP HALL, A692

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1240731
Date first listed:: 21-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:: GATE PIERS AND WALLS IN FRONT OF PONTOP HALL
Statutory Address:: GATE PIERS AND WALLS IN FRONT OF PONTOP HALL, A692

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1240731
Date first listed:: 21-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:: GATE PIERS AND WALLS IN FRONT OF PONTOP HALL
Statutory Address 1:: GATE PIERS AND WALLS IN FRONT OF PONTOP HALL, A692

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:: GATE PIERS AND WALLS IN FRONT OF PONTOP HALL, A692

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

District:: County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: NZ 14837 53639

Details

NZ 15 SW STANLEY A 692 (North side) Dipton 6/132 Gate piers and walls in front of Pontop Hall GV II Gate piers and garden wall to Pontop Hall (q.v.). Early C18. Sandstone rubble wall with stone coping; ashlar piers. Wall about one metre high in front of house, interrupted by wide entrance with 2 piers. Piers are square, with alternate-block rustication and large cornices; ball finials on cruciform scroll brackets, one bracket missing. Wall continues around garden at right, and is ramped to 2 metres high.

Listing NGR: NZ1483753639

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

Legacy System number:: 439240
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.