GATE PIERS AND ATTACHED WALL TO THE WEST APPROXIMATELY 100 YARDS SOUTH WEST OF WHITTINGTON OLD HALL

GATE PIERS AND ATTACHED WALL TO THE WEST APPROXIMATELY 100 YARDS SOUTH WEST OF WHITTINGTON OLD HALL, FISHERWICK ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1374269
Date first listed:: 20-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:: GATE PIERS AND ATTACHED WALL TO THE WEST APPROXIMATELY 100 YARDS SOUTH WEST OF WHITTINGTON OLD HALL
Statutory Address:: GATE PIERS AND ATTACHED WALL TO THE WEST APPROXIMATELY 100 YARDS SOUTH WEST OF WHITTINGTON OLD HALL, FISHERWICK ROAD

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Date:: 2001-06-30
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1374269
Date first listed:: 20-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:: GATE PIERS AND ATTACHED WALL TO THE WEST APPROXIMATELY 100 YARDS SOUTH WEST OF WHITTINGTON OLD HALL
Statutory Address 1:: GATE PIERS AND ATTACHED WALL TO THE WEST APPROXIMATELY 100 YARDS SOUTH WEST OF WHITTINGTON OLD HALL, FISHERWICK ROAD

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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: GATE PIERS AND ATTACHED WALL TO THE WEST APPROXIMATELY 100 YARDS SOUTH WEST OF WHITTINGTON OLD HALL, FISHERWICK ROAD

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

County:: Staffordshire
District:: Lichfield (District Authority)
Parish:: Whittington
National Grid Reference:: SK1614908216

Details

SK 1608 11/108

WHITTINGTON C.P. FISHERWICK ROAD (North side) Gate piers and attached wall to the west approximately 100 yards south-west of Whittington Old Hall

GV II

Pair of gate piers and wall. Dated 1673. Rusticated ashlar piers and red brick wall with ashlar coping approximately 20 yards long; Each pier is square in section and has a cap with projecting cornice and the base of a former finial on top, the frieze of each pier has an oval panel, the left hand one bears an oval frieze and the inscription "FOYIST / TOVT", the right hand one is inscribed 1673. The gate piers formerly flanked an entrance to the grounds of Whittington Old Hall, which was blocked by the present wall.

Listing NGR: SK1614908216

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Legacy System number:: 272597
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.