Front Gate to Inwood
FRONT GATE TO INWOOD, SHERBORNE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366347
- Date first listed:
- 15-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Front Gate to Inwood
- Statutory Address:
- FRONT GATE TO INWOOD, SHERBORNE ROAD
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/11235/10
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366347
- Date first listed:
- 15-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Front Gate to Inwood
- Statutory Address 1:
- FRONT GATE TO INWOOD, SHERBORNE ROAD
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:
- FRONT GATE TO INWOOD, SHERBORNE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Henstridge
- National Grid Reference:
- ST7150619887
Details
ST71NW
6/97
HENSTRIDGE CP
HENSTRIDGE ASH
SHERBORNE ROAD (North side)
Front Gate to Inwood
II
Gateway. C19. Portland stone and wrot iron. Pair central gates with piers, side railings and outer piers. Central piers about 1 metre square at base and 4.5 metres high: moulded plinth; rusticated shaft; corbelled bracketted cyma recta caps with double steps and lead statues set thereon, the West a woman with a rake, the right a man with a sickle; link base walls to plainer side piers with ball finials. Gates have side frets and overthrow incorporating cartouche with letters MG (for Merthyr Guest) all in wrot iron openwork: gates are very ornate in French style, having shouldered arched tops: side railings with scrolled sweeps to match.
Part of a large estate with many good collected items; the main house, of 1881, of lesser interest and not listed.
Listing NGR: ST7150619887
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 261833
- 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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