GATE PIERS, WALLS AND PRIVIES AT METHOLD HOUSES

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1323093
Date first listed:: 23-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:: GATE PIERS, WALLS AND PRIVIES AT METHOLD HOUSES
Statutory Address:: GATE PIERS, WALLS AND PRIVIES AT METHOLD HOUSES

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1323093
Date first listed:: 23-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:: GATE PIERS, WALLS AND PRIVIES AT METHOLD HOUSES
Statutory Address 1:: GATE PIERS, WALLS AND PRIVIES AT METHOLD HOUSES

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:: GATE PIERS, WALLS AND PRIVIES AT METHOLD HOUSES

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

District:: County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Urpeth
National Grid Reference:: NZ 22148 53772

Details

URPETH BEAMISH NZ 25 SW 3/58 Gate piers, walls and privies at Methold Houses GV II

Gate piers, walls and privies (the latter now used for storage). Piers dated 1863. Built for John Eden. Dressed sandstone.

1.5 to 2.0-metre high walls, with low triangular-section coping, enclose curtilage of Methold Houses. Rounded north-west corner; driveway near north- east corner. Short serpentine sections to pair of gate piers in west wall. Tall, square-plan piers have chamfered corners with bar stops and moulded pyramidal caps; sunk inscribed plaques; METHOLD HOUSES (on north pier); ERECTED 1863 (on south pier). 4 detached privies regularly spaced on rear (east) wall. Each privy has 2 boarded doors under flush lintels and a flat- coped parapet masking a pent roof.

Included for group value. Altered stone sheds and later lean-to additions on privies are not of special interest.

Listing NGR: NZ2214853772

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Legacy System number:: 109403
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.