GATE PIERS AT ENTRANCE TO DRIVE TO HESKIN HALL

GATE PIERS AT ENTRANCE TO DRIVE TO HESKIN HALL, WOOD LANE

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1362098
Date first listed:: 17-Apr-1967
List Entry Name:: GATE PIERS AT ENTRANCE TO DRIVE TO HESKIN HALL
Statutory Address:: GATE PIERS AT ENTRANCE TO DRIVE TO HESKIN HALL, WOOD LANE

Gate Piers at entrance to the drive to Heskin Hall. Two dressed stone gate piers, perhaps late 17th century. — Uploaded by Ashley Preston This photo may not represent the current condition of the site
View all

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

There is a problem

Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1362098
Date first listed:: 17-Apr-1967
List Entry Name:: GATE PIERS AT ENTRANCE TO DRIVE TO HESKIN HALL
Statutory Address 1:: GATE PIERS AT ENTRANCE TO DRIVE TO HESKIN HALL, WOOD LANE

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: GATE PIERS AT ENTRANCE TO DRIVE TO HESKIN HALL, WOOD LANE

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

County:: Lancashire
District:: Chorley (District Authority)
Parish:: Heskin
National Grid Reference:: SD 52865 15768

Details

HESKIN WOOD LANE SD 51 NW 9/136 Gate Piers at entrance to drive to Heskin Hall 17.4.67. - II

Two gate piers. Perhaps late C17. Dressed stone. Square in section and c.3 metres high. Massive, decorated in Renaissance style: panelled pedestals with moulded feet and tops, panelled pillars with moulded cornices, fluted friezes, and egg-and-dart bands beneath very prominent moulded caps, which bear 2-stage moulded pedestals to former finials; parts damaged or missing.

Listing NGR: SD5286515768

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 184390
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.