PAIR OF GATEPIERS,OPPOSITE THE COTTAGE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1304638
Date first listed:: 09-Sep-1985
List Entry Name:: PAIR OF GATEPIERS,OPPOSITE THE COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: PAIR OF GATEPIERS,OPPOSITE THE COTTAGE

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Date:: 2003-02-09
Reference:: IOE01/09192/25
Rights:: © Ms Anne Griffiths. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1304638
Date first listed:: 09-Sep-1985
List Entry Name:: PAIR OF GATEPIERS,OPPOSITE THE COTTAGE
Statutory Address 1:: PAIR OF GATEPIERS,OPPOSITE THE COTTAGE

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:: PAIR OF GATEPIERS,OPPOSITE THE COTTAGE

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Stroud (District Authority)
Parish:: Alderley
National Grid Reference:: ST 76958 90859

Details

ST 79 SE ALDERLEY ALDERLEY VILLAGE at NGR 76959085

8/28 Pair of gatepiers, opposite The Cottage.

II

Pair of gatepiers, possibly from a former house now disappeared. Mid/late C18. Rusticated dressed stone on bases, with moulded cornices and very large eggshape finials with "egg-cups" of stylized fluted acanthus design. The whole about 3.5m high. The inside face of each pier has an applied "niche", the full height of the pier, with small shell at top and flattening to a scroll moulding at the top.

Listing NGR: ST7695890859

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Legacy System number:: 132172
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.