Listed Building: TWO PAIRS OF GATE PIERS AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALLS TO THE SOUTH, SOUTH EAST AND SOUTH WEST OF FANSHAWE GATE HALL (1109633)
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Grade | II |
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Authority | English Heritage |
Volume/Map/Item | 1263, 5, 148 |
Date assigned | 31 January 1967 |
Date last amended | 07 July 1989 |
Description
Two pairs of gatepiers and attached boundary walls. C17. Ashlar gritstone gatepiers, with coursed rubble-sandstone garden walls which link the gatepiers, and enclose the drive and gardens at Fanshawe Gate Hall. Northern gatepiers, of rusticated ashlar with boldly projecting cornice supporting acorn finials on curved pyramidal stems. Scroll brackets link flanking walls to piers. Southern gatepiers are plain ashlar, each with a moulded cornices, supporting clusters of four balls, which themselves support a second cornice. Upon this upper cornice rests the stem for a ball finial. Linking the two pairs of gatepiers are stone walls, 2 metres high and 20 metres in length. Extending 15 metres to the east and 10 metres to the west of the northern gatepiers, are stone boundary walls 1.5 and 2 metres high which enclose gardens to either side. The eastern wall has a quoined door surround, with a plain stone lintel.
(formerly listed as two pairs of gatepiers at Fanshawe Gate Hall)
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Location
Grid reference | SK 31018 78262 (point) |
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Map sheet | SK37NW |
Civil Parish | HOLMESFIELD, NORTH EAST DERBYSHIRE, DERBYSHIRE |
Related Monuments/Buildings (1)
Record last edited
Dec 5 2013 4:23PM