GATE IN WALLED GARDEN SOUTH WEST OF DORFOLD HALL

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1330151
Date first listed:: 04-Jul-1986
List Entry Name:: GATE IN WALLED GARDEN SOUTH WEST OF DORFOLD HALL
Statutory Address:: GATE IN WALLED GARDEN SOUTH WEST OF DORFOLD HALL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1330151
Date first listed:: 04-Jul-1986
List Entry Name:: GATE IN WALLED GARDEN SOUTH WEST OF DORFOLD HALL
Statutory Address 1:: GATE IN WALLED GARDEN SOUTH WEST OF DORFOLD 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:: GATE IN WALLED GARDEN SOUTH WEST OF DORFOLD HALL

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

District:: Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Burland and Acton
National Grid Reference:: SJ 63536 52474

Details

ACTON C.P. DORFOLD PARK SJ 65 SW Gate in walled garden 4/13 south-west of Dorfold - Hall GV II

Gate and piers giving access to the walled garden from the Hall, circa 1824. Stone dressed brickwork and wrought iron gate. High standing flush stone dressed square piers with moulded plinths and moulded projecting caps supporting stone eagles. The opening has a single wide tall gate flanked by tall narrow metal infill panels: these have a serpentine zig-zag motif but the basic gate design is of square bars with spears to top rail and dog-bar. The overthrow has the Tollemache fret device flanked by scrolls and with a cross finial based on spears and scrolls.

Listing NGR: SJ6353652474

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

Legacy System number:: 56925
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 6 Cheshire,

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.