GATES, PIERS AND FLANKINGS BALUSTRADES AND WALLS TO GIRSBY MANOR

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1307182
Date first listed:: 24-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:: GATES, PIERS AND FLANKINGS BALUSTRADES AND WALLS TO GIRSBY MANOR
Statutory Address:: GATES, PIERS AND FLANKINGS BALUSTRADES AND WALLS TO GIRSBY MANOR

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Date:: 2001-10-02
Reference:: IOE01/05658/14
Rights:: © Mr Brian Harris. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1307182
Date first listed:: 24-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:: GATES, PIERS AND FLANKINGS BALUSTRADES AND WALLS TO GIRSBY MANOR
Statutory Address 1:: GATES, PIERS AND FLANKINGS BALUSTRADES AND WALLS TO GIRSBY MANOR

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:: GATES, PIERS AND FLANKINGS BALUSTRADES AND WALLS TO GIRSBY MANOR

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County:: Lincolnshire
District:: East Lindsey (District Authority)
Parish:: Burgh on Bain
National Grid Reference:: TF 21540 86931

Details

BURGH ON BAIN GIRSBY TF 28 NW 6/18 Gates, piers and flanking balu- strades and walls to Girsby Manor II

Gates, gate piers and flanking balustrades and walls. c.1840, reconstructed 1905. Brick, ashlar, concrete and wrought iron. Pair of wrought iron gates with decorative upper and lower rails and vertical panels, containing curlicues, surmounted by scrolled top and centre piece, flanked by square ashlar cordonned pillars with moulded bases and capitals, having egg and dart frieze, segmental pediments surmounted by moulded concrete foxes. In the front pediments are scrolled cartouches, that on the left contains initials "V.U.St.J" and on the right the date "1905". To either side are straight ashlar balustrades, surmounted by curling wrought iron side brackets, the balustrades terminating in square piers with ball finials. Beyond are curving sections of balustrade terminating in similar piers. Beyond again to the road side are stone coped low brick walls, 9 bays to the left and 3 bays to the right, divided by square brick piers again with stone ball finials. Girsby Manor, now demolished, belonged to the Fox family, hence the rebus gate piers which were erected by John St. Vigor Fox.

Listing NGR: TF2154086931

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Legacy System number:: 195270
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.