Walls, piers, gates and railings to King James I Academy

Walls, piers, gates and railings to King James I Academy, South Church Road

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1291998
Date first listed:: 23-May-1994
List Entry Name:: Walls, piers, gates and railings to King James I Academy
Statutory Address:: Walls, piers, gates and railings to King James I Academy, South Church Road

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1291998
Date first listed:: 23-May-1994
List Entry Name:: Walls, piers, gates and railings to King James I Academy
Statutory Address 1:: Walls, piers, gates and railings to King James I Academy, South Church Road

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:: Walls, piers, gates and railings to King James I Academy, South Church Road

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

District:: County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Bishop Auckland
National Grid Reference:: NZ 21265 29377

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21June 2023 to amend the name and address, and to reformat the text to current standards

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BISHOP AUCKLAND SOUTH CHURCH ROAD (East side) Walls, piers, gates and railings to King James I Academy

(Formerly listed as Walls, piers, gates and railings to King James I School)

GV II

Walls, piers, railings and gate to lodge and drive of Bishop Auckland Girls' Grammar school, now King James I Comprehensive School (qv).

1910. For Durham County Council. Coursed squared stone walls with ashlar coping, and wrought-iron railings and gate. Low walls with flat stone coping run along front of garden to lodge and continue to entrance to drive. Tall square piers of coursed squared stone, at either end of lodge garden, at drive entrance, and terminating entrance wall to south, have ashlar plinth and flat stone coping. Drive entrance piers are set diagonally and have corniced coping with stone ball finials. Railings linking piers are in sections with ramped top rail divided by lattice panels. Gate to lodge has posts in lattice work and lower part of gate has cross bracing.

Listing NGR: NZ2126529377

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Legacy System number:: 385753
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.