Gatepiers, Garden Walls, Railings And Sundial, Circa 30 Yards South Of Overacres is a Grade II* listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1951. Gatepiers and garden walls.

Gatepiers, Garden Walls, Railings And Sundial, Circa 30 Yards South Of Overacres

WRENN ID
stony-gravel-dew
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Country
England
Date first listed
10 November 1951
Type
Gatepiers and garden walls
Source
Historic England listing

Description

OTTERBURN OVERACRES NY 99 SW 26/52 Gatepiers, garden 10.11.51 walls, railings and sundial, c.30 yards south of Overacres GV II*

Gatepiers with flanking walls, railings and end pier with sundial. 1720 possibly re-set, for the Howards of Redesdale.

Tall, rusticated corniced piers with the Howard crest set in foliage trails below the friezes. Friezes each have a wild-man mask flanked by rosettes. Large urns with festoons, swags and heads, capped by pineapple finials. On the inner face of each pier the date MDCCXX in a moulded panel.

Flanked by short walls c.3ft high with corniced coping and simple spiked railings.

To left a square, corniced end pier, bearing a multi-faceted sundial on a Corinthian capital and with a ball finial.

Northumberland County History Vol. XV.

Listing NGR: NY9084793058

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