Walls, Gate Piers And Gates Approximately 80 Metres Long, Parallel To, And 70 Metres North Of Entrance Elevation Of Levens Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1984. Walls and gate piers.
Walls, Gate Piers And Gates Approximately 80 Metres Long, Parallel To, And 70 Metres North Of Entrance Elevation Of Levens Hall
- WRENN ID
- carved-attic-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1984
- Type
- Walls and gate piers
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SD 48 NE 1/27
LEVENS A6 (off West side)
Walls, gate piers and gates approx. 80m long, parallel to, and 70m North of entrance elevation of Levens Hall (q.v.)
G.V. II
Walls, gate piers and gates. Probably c1700: similar walls shown on a 1720 plan of gardens appear to be part of Beaumont's original design for gardens of 1692. Rubble walls, with sandstone dressings. Central low portion has moulded copings surmounted by 4 corniced sandstone piers and timber balusters with moulded top and bottom rails and uprights set diagonally. Gateway at centre, flanked by rusticated sandstone piers with plinths and cornices, has later decorative wrought-iron gates with ramped tops and scrolled heads to standards. Each pier surmounted by stone vase; similar vases at intervals on wall. Small wrought-iron lattice-patterned gate at East end. See R.C.H.M. p155.
Listing NGR: SD4954185173
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