Iron Gate and Gate Piers to Park at Gilston Park
IRON GATE AND GATE PIERS TO PARK AT GILSTON PARK, GILSTON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1348007
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Iron Gate and Gate Piers to Park at Gilston Park
- Statutory Address:
- IRON GATE AND GATE PIERS TO PARK AT GILSTON PARK, GILSTON LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1348007
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Iron Gate and Gate Piers to Park at Gilston Park
- Statutory Address 1:
- IRON GATE AND GATE PIERS TO PARK AT GILSTON PARK, GILSTON LANE
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:
- IRON GATE AND GATE PIERS TO PARK AT GILSTON PARK, GILSTON LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Gilston
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 44479 12950
Details
TL 4412 GILSTON GILSTON LANE (west side)
9/3 Iron Gate and Gate piers to Park at Gilston Park -
- II
Iron gate. Early C19. A wide single wrought iron gate supported on square openwork iron piers of neo-classical design with short lengths of projecting railing on each side. The piers have cast anthemion ornament and urns at each corner. Similar urns terminate the flanking railings. The upper part of each pier has crossed members with dished bosses at the intersection and at the junctions with the main uprights. Scrolls in the lower part support a rail of diagonal latticework topped by spearheads. A similar lattice rail runs across the gate separating a lower part with bars and arrows alternately from the upper part with spears running up through the top member which is swept down in a shallow curve to meet a curved rail arching up from the middle rail. A delicate example of neo-classical wrought ironwork, probably moved from the vicinity of the main house when Gothic Gilston Park was erected by Hardwick for John Hodgson in 1852.
Listing NGR: TL4447912950
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 159921
- 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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