Gothick Gatehouse to Hardwick Park
GOTHICK GATEHOUSE TO HARDWICK PARK, A177
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1322811
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Gothick Gatehouse to Hardwick Park
- Statutory Address:
- GOTHICK GATEHOUSE TO HARDWICK PARK, A177
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1322811
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Gothick Gatehouse to Hardwick Park
- Statutory Address 1:
- GOTHICK GATEHOUSE TO HARDWICK PARK, A177
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- GOTHICK GATEHOUSE TO HARDWICK PARK, A177
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sedgefield
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 34620 28838
Details
NZ 32 NW 346288 SEDGEFIELD A 177 (West side, off) 6/28 29/4/52 Gothick Gatehouse to Hardwick Park ( previously listed as Artificial Ruin) II*
Gothick Gatehouse. Circa 1764 by James Paine for John Burdon. Sandstone ashlar. Long, rectangular-plan gatehouse with circular tower attached to rear of left return. Built as a sham ruin in Gothick style and incorporating medieval masonry from Guisborough Priory. Chamfered plinth and stepped buttresses. Front has pointed arch under hoodmould leading into through passage with quadripartite rib vault (probably from Guisborough Priory). Fragments of first-floor band to right of entrance. Ruinous flanking walls. Circular tower, said to contain spiral staircase, has triple-chamfered plinth and Tudor-arched doorway; similar doorway and flat band above; upper stages of tower missing. Rear has similar pointed passage arch flanked by small semi-octagonal towers; circular window in fragment of wall to left. Ruinous at time of survey.
The Serpentine Bridge and Gothick Gatehouse formed part of a set of 7 landscape buildings designed by James Paine for Hardwick Park. The remaining buildings have either disappeared or are too fragmentary to merit listing.
Listing NGR: NZ3462028838
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 112141
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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