Gates And Gatepiers To East Of Longford Hall is a Grade II* listed building in the Derbyshire Dales local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1985. Gates and gatepiers.

Gates And Gatepiers To East Of Longford Hall

WRENN ID
brooding-foundation-amber
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Derbyshire Dales
Country
England
Date first listed
19 July 1985
Type
Gates and gatepiers
Source
Historic England listing

Description

SK 23 NW PARISH OF LONGFORD LONG LANE 6/26 (North Side) Gates and Gatepiers to east of Longford Hall GV II*

Entrance gates and gatepiers. Early C18, reputedly by Robert Bakewell. Stone and iron, Pair of square gate piers, approximately 12 feet high and rusticated to all sides with moulded cornice and shallow pyramidal coping stone over. To north and south sides of each pier, a plain pilaster with scrolled top, the two central ones taking the fixings for the gates. Fine pair of gates, each with segmental curve up to centre and made up of plain square sectioned rails, tied by band decorated with little knobbed and scrolled finials about a third of the way up, also with an ornate cornice above. To the base is a dograil of arrowheads. The cornice comprises a frieze of strapwork with wavy bands to centre. This pattern is continued in narrow separate panels at the sides on which the gates are hung. Both gates are surmounted by elaborate scrolled overmantles with fleur de lys type finials.

Listing NGR: SK2159438250

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