Garden Wall Between Garden Cottage and Duke's House

GARDEN WALL BETWEEN GARDEN COTTAGE AND DUKE'S HOUSE, FELLSIDE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1370803
Date first listed:
18-May-1976
List Entry Name:
Garden Wall Between Garden Cottage and Duke's House
Statutory Address:
GARDEN WALL BETWEEN GARDEN COTTAGE AND DUKE'S HOUSE, FELLSIDE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1370803
Date first listed:
18-May-1976
List Entry Name:
Garden Wall Between Garden Cottage and Duke's House
Statutory Address 1:
GARDEN WALL BETWEEN GARDEN COTTAGE AND DUKE'S HOUSE, FELLSIDE

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
GARDEN WALL BETWEEN GARDEN COTTAGE AND DUKE'S HOUSE, FELLSIDE

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

District:
Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Hexham
National Grid Reference:
NY 95297 63078

Details

FELLSIDE 1. 5334 Garden wall between Garden Cottage and Duke's House NY 9563 9/224A

II

2. Circa 1873. Rubble wall. About 150 yds long and approximately 7 to 10 ft. high. Gateway at west end adjoining stables to Garden Cottage: rock faced ashlar gate piers with balls above. Close to this, the wall incorporates the remains of an earlier house, said to be where the Duke of Somerset took refuge after the Battle of Linnells Bridge 1464. East of this is another gateway with a solid moulded ashlar doorway with a modillion cornice and crested capping above. The gateway to Duke's House is wide and flanked by S-curved walls: ashlar piers with pyramidal caps and crenellated cresting. The wall extends further east to the back garden gate to Duke's House: a tall gabled gateway with a blind trefoil in gable above ogee headed doorway. Wall stepped up to gable.

Listing NGR: NY9529763078

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
239081
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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