WYCOMBE ABBEY FORMER GATES AND RAILINGS FROM CUMBERLAND HOUSE AND BUCKINGHAM HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246231
Date first listed:: 31-Jan-1996
List Entry Name:: WYCOMBE ABBEY FORMER GATES AND RAILINGS FROM CUMBERLAND HOUSE AND BUCKINGHAM HOUSE
Statutory Address:: WYCOMBE ABBEY FORMER GATES AND RAILINGS FROM CUMBERLAND HOUSE AND BUCKINGHAM HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246231
Date first listed:: 31-Jan-1996
List Entry Name:: WYCOMBE ABBEY FORMER GATES AND RAILINGS FROM CUMBERLAND HOUSE AND BUCKINGHAM HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: WYCOMBE ABBEY FORMER GATES AND RAILINGS FROM CUMBERLAND HOUSE AND BUCKINGHAM HOUSE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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Statutory Address:: WYCOMBE ABBEY FORMER GATES AND RAILINGS FROM CUMBERLAND HOUSE AND BUCKINGHAM HOUSE

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District:: Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SU 86819 92555

Details

SU 8692 NE HIGH WYCOMBE THE RYE 1/10001 Wycombe Abbey Former gates and railings from Cumberland House and Buckingham House

II

Railings, gatepiers and gates. 1780s, 1790s and mid C19, salvaged from houses occupied by the old War Office when in Pall Mall, London. Centre sections salvaged from Cumberland House, nos 85-87 Pall Mall, part Robert Adam's remodelling in the 1780s, gates and piers mid C19. Outer sections salvaged from Buckingham House, no 91 Pall Mall, Sir John Soane's remodelling of 1792-95. These were purchased by Lord Carrington 1908-9 and first erected as entrance gates and screen to Daws Hill House drive from High Wycombe. It was moved 25 metres south to its present location in 1924. Cast and wrought iron. on stone plinths. Its total length is 50 metres, of which 23 metres is from Buckingham House. Centre Sections (former forecourt screen to Cumberland House) comprise four gatepiers with former lamp supports, hollow piers with scrollwork, and four intermediate standards with urn finials with wrought iron decoration by Robert Adam. The central gates were removed for scrap during World War II. The mid C19 phase comprises two of the four carriage gates incorporated [non-opening] with alternating pointed and open fleur-de-lys finials. Main railing stretches with spear head finials and panels to base of railings. The outer sections (former area railings to Buckingham House of the 1790s) comprise spear head railings with three area gates incorporated [non-opening]. Seven decorative panels survive with three oval paterae within wrought iron lozenges. At the far left is a tall wrought iron panelled standard, provenance unknown. [See "Survey of London" Vols 29,30 pp. 360-367. Illustrated in Plates 204,209, 224 and 225. Athlone Press 1960.]

Listing NGR: SU8681992555

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'Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England' in Survey of London, (), 360-367
'Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England' in Survey of London, ()

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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.