GATE PIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS TO WIDCOMBE HILL HOUSE

GATE PIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS TO WIDCOMBE HILL HOUSE, WIDCOMBE HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395773
Date first listed:: 11-Jun-1950
List Entry Name:: GATE PIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS TO WIDCOMBE HILL HOUSE
Statutory Address:: GATE PIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS TO WIDCOMBE HILL HOUSE, WIDCOMBE HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395773
Date first listed:: 11-Jun-1950
Date of most recent amendment:: 14-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: GATE PIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS TO WIDCOMBE HILL HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: GATE PIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS TO WIDCOMBE HILL HOUSE, WIDCOMBE HILL

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: GATE PIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS TO WIDCOMBE HILL HOUSE, WIDCOMBE HILL

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

District:: Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: ST 75937 64036

Details

WIDCOMBE HILL 656-1/42/1914 (North side) Gate piers and boundary walls to Widcombe Hill House (Formerly Listed as: WIDCOMBE HILL (North side) Widcombe Hill House) 12/06/50

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Gate piers and boundary walls with piers. Ashlar and rubble. Mid to late C18 (OS says post-1776). At right hand end of site pair of large square rusticated piers, that to left with moulded base partly exposed, and with moulded capping to blocking course carrying large stone pine cones in urns, pair of C20 plank gates. To right approximately 1m run of rubble wall on small plinth, stopped to carriage house (not included), and with weathered coping. To left similar run of wall, then approx 1.5m in coursed work, stopped to rusticated pier with pyramidal capping, at this point stone wall returns to front of house. Wall continues left at approximately 1.7m height, in series of five steps, with swept coping, following slope down hill, and stopped at end of site to rubble pier. The prominent finials are reminders of the extensive stone-cutting business that was carried out in this area. SOURCES: Historical Map: Southampton: 1989.

Listing NGR: ST7593764036

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 511184
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.