Gazebo and Garden Wall Adjoining the West Wing, Holywell Hall

GAZEBO AND GARDEN WALL ADJOINING THE WEST WING, HOLYWELL HALL, HOLYWELL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1323196
Date first listed:
16-Sept-1975
List Entry Name:
Gazebo and Garden Wall Adjoining the West Wing, Holywell Hall
Statutory Address:
GAZEBO AND GARDEN WALL ADJOINING THE WEST WING, HOLYWELL HALL, HOLYWELL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1323196
Date first listed:
16-Sept-1975
List Entry Name:
Gazebo and Garden Wall Adjoining the West Wing, Holywell Hall
Statutory Address 1:
GAZEBO AND GARDEN WALL ADJOINING THE WEST WING, HOLYWELL HALL, HOLYWELL

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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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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
GAZEBO AND GARDEN WALL ADJOINING THE WEST WING, HOLYWELL HALL, HOLYWELL

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

District:
County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Brancepeth
National Grid Reference:
NZ 25021 37330

Details

BRANCEPETH HOLYWELL NZ 23 NW and NZ 23 NE (South side) 5/11 and 6/11 Inset Gazebo and garden 16/9/75 wall adjoining The West Wing, Holywell Hall GV II

Garden wall and gazebo. Mid-late C18. Narrow hand-made brick wall in irregular English garden wall bond. South-west wall of gazebo in hand-made brick; remainder coursed rubble with squared quoins. 3.5-metre tall wall runs south-west for c.60 metres from The West Wing of Holywell Hall. Brick coping and regularly-spaced buttresses on south; partly rebuilt in engineering brick near junction with gazebo. Low 2-storey, square-plan gazebo. Large blocked Venetian window on south-west face has stone key and lintels over side lights. C20 vehicle opening on north-east. Wood ladder-stair to first-floor doorway on south-east. Parapet, with moulded coping, is slightly ramped up at corners. Roofless. Wall and gazebo included for group value. One-storey addition on south-east of gazebo is not of special interest. Derelict at time of survey.

Listing NGR: NZ2502137330

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Legacy System number:
109892
Legacy System:
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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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