Carrmire Gates Wall And End Turrets is a Grade I listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1954. A Early C18 Gate.

Carrmire Gates Wall And End Turrets

WRENN ID: over-gargoyle-grove
Grade: I
Local Planning Authority: North Yorkshire
Country: England
Date first listed: 25 January 1954
Type: Gate
Period: Early C18
Source: Historic England listing

Description

NORTH YORKSHIRE RYDALE 5340

SE 76 NW BULMER CASTLE HOWARD STRAY

4/5 Carrmire Gates and Wall and end turrets 25.1.54 (Formerly listed as Carrmire Gate, Castle Howard) GV I

Gateway to Castle Howard demesne, and flanking wall with end turrets. Early C18 by Vanbrugh or Hawksmoor. Limestone rubble brough to course. Round- arched triple-keyed gateway beneath open pediment flanked by square rusticated piers each surmounted by pyramids. Battlemented wall to either side running approximately 30 metres and terminating in buttressed circular 2-stage mock medieval turrets with cruciform arrow slits and battlements. Pevsner "Yorkshire: The North Riding" 1966.

Listing NGR: SE7122068544

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