Garden Wall, Piers, Gates, and House Attached at Beamish Hall Gardens
GARDEN WALL, PIERS, GATES, AND HOUSE ATTACHED AT BEAMISH HALL GARDENS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1240739
- Date first listed:
- 01-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Garden Wall, Piers, Gates, and House Attached at Beamish Hall Gardens
- Statutory Address:
- GARDEN WALL, PIERS, GATES, AND HOUSE ATTACHED AT BEAMISH HALL GARDENS
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1240739
- Date first listed:
- 01-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Garden Wall, Piers, Gates, and House Attached at Beamish Hall Gardens
- Statutory Address 1:
- GARDEN WALL, PIERS, GATES, AND HOUSE ATTACHED AT BEAMISH HALL GARDENS
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:
- GARDEN WALL, PIERS, GATES, AND HOUSE ATTACHED AT BEAMISH HALL GARDENS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stanley
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 20928 54692
Details
NZ 25 SW STANLEY BEAMISH 8/146 Garden wall, piers, gates, and house 1/10/86 attached at Beamish Hall Gardens GV II* Garden wall with gatepiers and gate in east side, gate in south side and bath house, now house, attached to north-east. Early C18, with C19 alterations. Wall brick with ashlar dressings; external leaf of west side is coursed sandstone rubble with plinth and quoins, and brick dressings; stone coping. Ashlar piers and wrought iron gates. House has ashlar south elevation with Welsh slate roof. Wall encloses rectangular garden; former heated wall on west side has 6 blocked low segmental brick flue arches; remainder of wall pilastered brick; all with flat stone coping. Boarded door under flat stone lintel in north part of west wall; inserted brick arch in south wall over round-headed wrought iron gate, dated 1849; 2 tall square piers in east side have chamfered rustication and wide cornices with urn finials; scroll-topped jambs hold single gate and flanking matching railings under overthrow of wide band of graduated scrolls, and finial of scroll and water-leaf patterns, with central cipher of letter W. Gates and railings have high spearhead dog-bars and intermediate bars. House attached has C19 temple-style front to garden of Beamish Hall (q.v.), with tetrastyle Tuscan pedimented portico; partly-glazed panelled door and flanking sashes with fine glazing bars. Steps along full width flanked by low flat-coped walls. The cipher W seems unlikely to relate to the Wray family for Thomas Wray sold Beamish Hall in 1671; it possibly refers to King William. East gates damaged at time of survey, and partly repaired with C20 nuts and bolts.
Listing NGR: NZ2092854692
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 439254
- 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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