Boundary Wall and Gateway at Whitlingham Hospital
BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEWAY AT WHITLINGHAM HOSPITAL, KIRBY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376816
- Date first listed:
- 14-Nov-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Boundary Wall and Gateway at Whitlingham Hospital
- Statutory Address:
- BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEWAY AT WHITLINGHAM HOSPITAL, KIRBY ROAD
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- Date:
- 1999-08-12
- Reference:
- IOE01/01831/19
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376816
- Date first listed:
- 14-Nov-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Boundary Wall and Gateway at Whitlingham Hospital
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEWAY AT WHITLINGHAM HOSPITAL, KIRBY ROAD
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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.
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:
- BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEWAY AT WHITLINGHAM HOSPITAL, KIRBY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- South Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Trowse with Newton
- National Grid Reference:
- TG2540406916
Details
TG 20 NE
1832/2/10004
TROWSE WITH NEWTON
KIRBY ROAD
(North side, off)
Boundary wall and gateway at Whitlingham Hospital
GV
II
Boundary wall and gateways. c1865, by HE Coe of Cambridge for Sir Robert Harvey. Red brick with ashlar dressings. The wall borders the site to west and to south, enclosing the gardens. Plinth, flat coping, dice with ball finials. Gateway at north west corner has 2 square brick piers with cornices, and ball finials on volutes. Curved flanking walls topped with wouth iron railings and with similar piers and finials. No gates. Western wall runs south from the gateway approx. 70m, to square projections facing north and west, linked by a rounded corner. A branch runs east for approx. 35m, then turns south to a plain gateway adjoining the house. From this point, the wall is pierced, with X-shaped openings. Western wall continues approx. 70m to a larger square projection facing west, with a central rounded bay in line with the main axis of the garden. South of this approx. 70m, square projections facing west and south, linked by a rounded corner. Southern wall runs eastwards approx. 100m across the garden front of the house. At the east end, square projections facing south and east, linked by a rounded corner.
Listing NGR: TG2540406916
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 468945
- 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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