Description

WANSBECK HARTFORD
NZ 28 SW

4/18 Entrance screen
and gates to
Hartford Hall
GV II*

Entrance screen and gates, 1873. Squared stone, cast and wrought iron. Gates
by Coalbrookdale Co., Shropshire (maker's plates). 4 openwork piers with
central double gates and side gates having central open section with ornate
foliage decoration; elaborate heads to bars. To either side similarly ornate
sections of railing, with top rail swept up to end in human hand grasping top
of bar adjacent to gate pier, on cast-iron dwarf wall. Flanking quadrant walls
have low gabled coping; end piers with large ball finials.

The gates were made for and exhibited at the Vienna Exhibition of 1873; one
of the most ornate examples of High Victorian ironwork in the North of England.

Listing NGR: NZ2432480237

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17545774

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)