Town Wall And Sandwell Gate is a Grade I listed building in the Hartlepool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 March 1949. A C14 Town wall.

Town Wall And Sandwell Gate

WRENN ID: pitched-shingle-willow
Grade: I
Local Planning Authority: Hartlepool
Country: England
Date first listed: 31 March 1949
Type: Town wall
Source: Historic England listing

Description

HARTLEPOOL TOWN WALL NZ 5233 (south side), Headland 8/118 Town Wall and Sandwell Gate. 31.3.49 - I

Town fortifications/retaining wall, fronting onto Commissioners' Harbour; early C14. Roughly-dressed and coursed limestone and random rubble limestone. Between 4m and 6m high; between 2m and 3m thick; approximately 380m long, including Sandwell Gate. Battered buttresses to seaward side; rampart walk above road level on landward side, behind parapet. Incorporating late C14 pointed-arched gateway, Sandwell Gate, on seaward side: arch of 2 chamfered orders, flanked by cut-water-like buttresses continued up to full height of parapet above string course. Within the arch a segmental barrel vault with chamfered ribs. Shallow triangular arch to landward side. Scheduled Ancient Monument No. 24.

Listing NGR: NZ5246133698

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