Railings, Piers and Gateway to Kings Hill Gazebo
RAILINGS, PIERS AND GATEWAY TO KINGS HILL GAZEBO, SOUTH YARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1388429
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Railings, Piers and Gateway to Kings Hill Gazebo
- Statutory Address:
- RAILINGS, PIERS AND GATEWAY TO KINGS HILL GAZEBO, SOUTH YARD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1388429
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Railings, Piers and Gateway to Kings Hill Gazebo
- Statutory Address 1:
- RAILINGS, PIERS AND GATEWAY TO KINGS HILL GAZEBO, SOUTH YARD
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:
- RAILINGS, PIERS AND GATEWAY TO KINGS HILL GAZEBO, SOUTH YARD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Plymouth (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SX4517654046
Details
SX 4555 SW PLYMOUTH SOUTH YARD, Devonport Dockyard
740-1/98/212 Railings, piers and gateway to
Kings Hill Gazebo
GV II*
Railings, piers and gateway. 1822. Cast and wrought iron. A pair of inverted muzzle-loading cannon inscribed GR form gate piers, linked by an overthrow with a gilded finial, decorative gate with curved sides and central oval, and with wrought-iron railings each side, which extend approx. 10m up the path to the Gazebo (qv), and surrounding a central fountain on top.
HISTORY: this is an integral part of the Kings Gazebo, which was built to mark the visit of George III, who asked that this remnant of the former topography of the Dockyard be left.
Listing NGR: SX4517654046
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476440
- 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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