Two gate piers with vases and wall

Two gate piers with vases and wall, Portland Place, Whittlesey, PE7 1SB

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1279447
Date first listed:: 22-Feb-1985
List Entry Name:: Two gate piers with vases and wall
Statutory Address:: Two gate piers with vases and wall, Portland Place, Whittlesey, PE7 1SB

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Date:: 2001-10-28
Reference:: IOE01/05623/07
Rights:: © Mr R. Keith Drewery. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1279447
Date first listed:: 22-Feb-1985
List Entry Name:: Two gate piers with vases and wall
Statutory Address 1:: Two gate piers with vases and wall, Portland Place, Whittlesey, PE7 1SB

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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Location

Statutory Address:: Two gate piers with vases and wall, Portland Place, Whittlesey, PE7 1SB

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

County:: Cambridgeshire
District:: Fenland (District Authority)
Parish:: Whittlesey
National Grid Reference:: TL2707896889

Details

TL 2796 22/128

WHITTLESEY PORTLAND PLACE Two gate piers with vases and wall

II Gate piers and wall. Late C17. Dressed limestone. Piers are square with rebate for gates and have a moulded cornice. Each pier is surmounted by a large vase with carved rim and bowl. The left hand pier has a short length of wall adjoining, also of dressed limestone with original gabled coping. The piers and wall are associated with Portland House, Whittlesey demolished after a fire c1950.

Private Photographic Collection, Whittlesey

Listing NGR: TL2707896889

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Legacy System number:: 403371
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1954)

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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.