Gates and Gate Piers to Wilderness Garden at North End of Lime Avenue of Adlington Hall
GATES AND GATE PIERS TO WILDERNESS GARDEN AT NORTH END OF LIME AVENUE OF ADLINGTON HALL, MILL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1329975
- Date first listed:
- 14-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Gates and Gate Piers to Wilderness Garden at North End of Lime Avenue of Adlington Hall
- Statutory Address:
- GATES AND GATE PIERS TO WILDERNESS GARDEN AT NORTH END OF LIME AVENUE OF ADLINGTON HALL, MILL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1329975
- Date first listed:
- 14-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Gates and Gate Piers to Wilderness Garden at North End of Lime Avenue of Adlington Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- GATES AND GATE PIERS TO WILDERNESS GARDEN AT NORTH END OF LIME AVENUE OF ADLINGTON HALL, MILL LANE
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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.
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:
- GATES AND GATE PIERS TO WILDERNESS GARDEN AT NORTH END OF LIME AVENUE OF ADLINGTON HALL, MILL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Adlington
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 90473 80334
Details
SJ 98 SW ADLINGTON C.P. MILL LANE (South Side)
3/18 Gates and gate piers to Wilderness garden at north end of lime avenue of Adlington Hall. 14/4/1967 GV II
Gates and gate piers: dated 1688 for Thomas Legh V. Ashlar buff gritstone. Piers have channelled rustication and stands on a low moulded plinths. Projecting moulded capstone has a flat top. Between are a pair of wrought iron gates made of closely spaced bars, square in section and pointed at the top. Some scroll work along top rail. Right hand gate contains a smaller door and left hand gate has the inscription IW 1688 on top bar. Gates erected, and lime avenue planted, in celebration of the arrival of William of Orange by a colonel of his militia.
Listing NGR: SJ9047380334
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 58184
- 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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