Inigo Jones's Gateway in Chiswick Park

INIGO JONES'S GATEWAY IN CHISWICK PARK, BURLINGTON LANE W4

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1294560
Date first listed:
21-May-1973
List Entry Name:
Inigo Jones's Gateway in Chiswick Park
Statutory Address:
INIGO JONES'S GATEWAY IN CHISWICK PARK, BURLINGTON LANE W4
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1294560
Date first listed:
21-May-1973
List Entry Name:
Inigo Jones's Gateway in Chiswick Park
Statutory Address 1:
INIGO JONES'S GATEWAY IN CHISWICK PARK, BURLINGTON LANE W4

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
INIGO JONES'S GATEWAY IN CHISWICK PARK, BURLINGTON LANE W4

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

County:
Greater London Authority
District:
Hounslow (London Borough)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TQ 21048 77599

Details

1. BURLINGTON LANE W4 4419 Inigo Jones's Gateway in Chiswick Park TQ 2177 20/105A

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2. 1621; removed from Beaufort House, Chelsea, 1738. Brick cement rendered, with stone dressings. Round-headed arch with keystone and vermiculated rustication. Flanked by Roman Doric columns with entablature and pediment. C18 side walls have broad stone cappings and ball-terminals, tablets inscribed "Builded by Inigo Jones at Chelsea 1621", and "Given by Sir Hans Sloane, Baronet to the Earl of Burlington 1738". Wrought iron gates. NMR. See "On Beaufort House gate at Chiswick" by Alexander Pope.

Chiswick House, the garden buildings and ornaments form a group.

Listing NGR: TQ2104877599

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
202434
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Sources

Books and journals
Pope, A, On Beaufort House Gate at Chiswick, ()

Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 17 Greater London

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of Inigo Jones's Gateway in Chiswick Park

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