Railings, Walls and Gates to Ardenlea

RAILINGS, WALLS AND GATES TO ARDENLEA, QUEENS DRIVE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1389295
Date first listed:
27-Sept-2000
List Entry Name:
Railings, Walls and Gates to Ardenlea
Statutory Address:
RAILINGS, WALLS AND GATES TO ARDENLEA, QUEENS DRIVE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1389295
Date first listed:
27-Sept-2000
List Entry Name:
Railings, Walls and Gates to Ardenlea
Statutory Address 1:
RAILINGS, WALLS AND GATES TO ARDENLEA, QUEENS DRIVE

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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:
RAILINGS, WALLS AND GATES TO ARDENLEA, QUEENS DRIVE

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

District:
Bradford (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Ilkley
National Grid Reference:
SE 10993 47143

Details

ILKLEY

SE 1047 QUEEN'S DRIVE
710/2/10010 (North side)
27-SEP-00 Railings, walls and gates to Ardenlea

GV II

Gate piers and linking walls with railings. 1881. Designed by Thomas Hope of Bradford for George Thorpe. Coursed stone with ashlar dressings and cast iron railings.
Two sets of square ashlar gate piers with moulded bases and chamfered sides which rise to octagonal central sections with incised banding and curved tops to each face. Upper circular section has Greek key patterning and moulded circular caps with ogee tops and ribs. The piers to the right retain their original iron finials. Linking these piers are low stone walls with curved ashlar coping topped with cast iron railings and sections of full-height walling between topped with similar coping.


Listing NGR: SE1099347143

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
487930
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.

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