Gate Piers, Walls And Privies At Methold Houses is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 February 1987. Gate piers and walls.
Gate Piers, Walls And Privies At Methold Houses
- WRENN ID
- wild-bracket-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 February 1987
- Type
- Gate piers and walls
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
URPETH BEAMISH NZ 25 SW 3/58 Gate piers, walls and privies at Methold Houses GV II
Gate piers, walls and privies (the latter now used for storage). Piers dated 1863. Built for John Eden. Dressed sandstone.
1.5 to 2.0-metre high walls, with low triangular-section coping, enclose curtilage of Methold Houses. Rounded north-west corner; driveway near north- east corner. Short serpentine sections to pair of gate piers in west wall. Tall, square-plan piers have chamfered corners with bar stops and moulded pyramidal caps; sunk inscribed plaques; METHOLD HOUSES (on north pier); ERECTED 1863 (on south pier). 4 detached privies regularly spaced on rear (east) wall. Each privy has 2 boarded doors under flush lintels and a flat- coped parapet masking a pent roof.
Included for group value. Altered stone sheds and later lean-to additions on privies are not of special interest.
Listing NGR: NZ2214853772
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