Gate Piers and Flanking Walls at Entrance to Former Gunpowder Works at SW754377
GATE PIERS AND FLANKING WALLS AT ENTRANCE TO FORMER GUNPOWDER WORKS AT SW754377, COT HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1328127
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Gate Piers and Flanking Walls at Entrance to Former Gunpowder Works at SW754377
- Statutory Address:
- GATE PIERS AND FLANKING WALLS AT ENTRANCE TO FORMER GUNPOWDER WORKS AT SW754377, COT HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1328127
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Gate Piers and Flanking Walls at Entrance to Former Gunpowder Works at SW754377
- Statutory Address 1:
- GATE PIERS AND FLANKING WALLS AT ENTRANCE TO FORMER GUNPOWDER WORKS AT SW754377, COT HILL
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:
- GATE PIERS AND FLANKING WALLS AT ENTRANCE TO FORMER GUNPOWDER WORKS AT SW754377, COT HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ponsanooth
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 75423 37689
Details
The entryfor: ST GLUVIAS
1532/1/108 COT HILL
24-NOV-88 PONSANOOTH
GATE PIERS AND FLANKING WALLS AT ENTRA
NCE TO FORMER GUNPOWDER WORKS AT SW754
377
GV II
Shall be replaced by:
SW 73 NE ST GLUVIAS COT HILL, Ponsanooth
1532/1/108 Gate-piers and flanking walls at entrance to former gunpowder works at SW754377
Gate-piers and flanking walls to former Kennal Vale Gunpowder Works. Late C19. Granite rubble with granite dressings. Wide gateway with piers and terminal piers integral with flanking walls. Gate-piers and terminal piers rise above the walls and are with ramped pyramidal caps. The walls slope down at either side of the terminal piers. Gateway partly blocked.
HISTORY: Kennal Vale is an exceptionally well-preserved gunpowder works which opened in 1812 and was extended in 1844. The house inside the gateway is shown on maps of 1840 and this entrance probably dates from the opening of the upper works in 1844.
Listing NGR: SW7542337689
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 66517
- 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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