Walls and Gate Piers and Gates to Pilton Cottage
WALLS AND GATE PIERS AND GATES TO PILTON COTTAGE, DARK LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385126
- Date first listed:
- 31-Dec-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Walls and Gate Piers and Gates to Pilton Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- WALLS AND GATE PIERS AND GATES TO PILTON COTTAGE, DARK LANE
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- Date:
- 2004-07-13
- Reference:
- IOE01/12628/25
- Rights:
- © Dr Barbara Hilton. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385126
- Date first listed:
- 31-Dec-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Sept-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Walls and Gate Piers and Gates to Pilton Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- WALLS AND GATE PIERS AND GATES TO PILTON COTTAGE, DARK LANE
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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:
- WALLS AND GATE PIERS AND GATES TO PILTON COTTAGE, DARK LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Barnstaple
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 55557 34162
Details
BARNSTAPLE
SS5534SE DARK LANE, Pilton
684-1/2/334 (South West side)
31/12/73 Walls, gate piers and gates to
Pilton Cottage
(Formerly Listed as:
DARK LANE, Pilton
Iron entrance gates and attached
gate-piers and walls at Pilton
Cottage)
GV II
Garden walls, gates and gate piers. Gates dated 1805 and 1824,
walls and gate piers probably also early C19. Gates, said to
commemorate a young soldier, refurbished in last 10 years.
Roughcast walls, coped with pantiles and ridge-tiles;
plastered gate piers; cast- and wrought-iron gates.
Walls ramp down to gate piers, which are square section with
moulded strings below tiered caps. Pair of exceptional
C18-style gates with overthrow. Each gate has a date in a
panel below the middle, with the main verticals ornamented
with arrows, roundels and, below the top rail, pendant twists.
Left and right panels have elaborate, lobed, mushroom-shaped
finial. Above the top rail scrollwork flanks a double-headed
eagle and below it, wrought-iron initials said to be DR.
Pretty overthrow incorporates applied flowers in the
scrollwork.
Wall encloses garden of Pilton Cottage (qv) at its entrance in
Dark Lane; unusually grand and finely-made pair of entrance
gates. An exceptional example of ornamental ironwork.
Listing NGR: SS5555734162
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485588
- 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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