PIERS, WALL, GATE AND RAILINGS SOUTH OF BIDDICK HALL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1323066
Date first listed:: 23-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:: PIERS, WALL, GATE AND RAILINGS SOUTH OF BIDDICK HALL
Statutory Address:: PIERS, WALL, GATE AND RAILINGS SOUTH OF BIDDICK HALL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1323066
Date first listed:: 23-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:: PIERS, WALL, GATE AND RAILINGS SOUTH OF BIDDICK HALL
Statutory Address 1:: PIERS, WALL, GATE AND RAILINGS SOUTH OF BIDDICK HALL

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: PIERS, WALL, GATE AND RAILINGS SOUTH OF BIDDICK HALL

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

District:: County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Bournmoor
National Grid Reference:: NZ 31453 52761

Details

BOURNMOOR LAMBTON PARK NZ 35 SW 5/10 Inset Piers, wall ,gate and railings south of Biddick Hall II

Piers, wall , railings and gate. Probably early C18 gate; C19 piers, wall and railings. Stone piers and wall; wrought-iron gate and railings.

Low 30-metre-long wall. End piers have chamfered arrises and rounded tops. Tall central gate has double rails at bottom and middle infilled by linked scrolls; shaped lock plate. Gate panels have delicate bifurcated scrolls with some foliage and flower motifs; heart-shaped upper panel, partly enclosing later roundel with monogram D (for Earl of Durham),surmounted by scrolled crest. Hanging and meeting posts have spike finials and scrolled supports to flanking lower railings. Railings have double rails at bottom and top infilled by scrollwork; alternating panels with interlacing scrolls and with wavy and straight bars.

Listing NGR: NZ3145352761

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 109356
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.