Walls, Gate Piers And Gates To North Of Egglestone Hall is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1987. Garden wall.
Walls, Gate Piers And Gates To North Of Egglestone Hall
- WRENN ID
- nether-gravel-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1987
- Type
- Garden wall
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
EGGLESTON B6281(North side NY9923 off)
25/6 Walls, gate piers and gates to North of Eggleston Hall GV II Garden wall, with 2 piers, gate and short wall at entrance to churchyard. Probably late C18 for Timothy Hutchinson. Coursed squared rubble with ashlar dressings and piers; wrought iron gates. Wall c. 3 metres high, battered and with inward-tilted flat stone coping, forms boundary along north and west sides of irregularly-shaped garden. Flat stone lintels over 3 boarded doors, one at west and 2 at north.
Churchyard entrance, at right-angles to south end of west wall: 2 banded domed piers, the westernmost with 4-metres-long curved wall, c. one metre high, attached. Gates have spike-headed uprights and urn finials.
The churchyard was described as being within Timothy Hutchinson's botanic garden. Source: Mackenzie and Ross Historical, Topographical and Descriptive View of Durham Vol. I:1834 p. 255.
Listing NGR: NY9979423467
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