Gateway and Flanking Walls With Gatepiers at Cothelstone Manor
GATEWAY AND FLANKING WALLS WITH GATEPIERS AT COTHELSTONE MANOR
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1344837
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Gateway and Flanking Walls With Gatepiers at Cothelstone Manor
- Statutory Address:
- GATEWAY AND FLANKING WALLS WITH GATEPIERS AT COTHELSTONE MANOR
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1344837
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Gateway and Flanking Walls With Gatepiers at Cothelstone Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- GATEWAY AND FLANKING WALLS WITH GATEPIERS AT COTHELSTONE MANOR
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:
- GATEWAY AND FLANKING WALLS WITH GATEPIERS AT COTHELSTONE MANOR
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cothelstone
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 18221 31688
Details
ST13SE COTHELSTONE CP
3/84 Gateway and flanking walls with gatepiers at Cothelstone Manor (formerly listed as Gateway to South of Farmery at Manor
25.2.55
GV II*
Gateway. C16, moved to present position mid C19. Red sandstone ashlar facade, random rubble with buttresses at rear. Large, moulded arched central opening with hood mould flanked by smaller arched openings, recumbent lions, imported from Tetton House, late C19, on flat coping above with pentice coping over central opening. Coats of arms with moulded surround, probably mid C19, on either side of central opening. Curved red sandstone random rubble wall with flat coping about one and a half metres high to right, terminating in square pier with moulded cap; similar to left but about 3 metres high. This gateway originally stood across the road; two men were hung from it after Monmouth Rebellion. (G Stawell, History of A Quantock Family, 1910; photograph NMR).
Listing NGR: ST1822131688
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 270295
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Stawell, G, History of a Quantock Family, (1910)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 46 Wiltshire,
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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