Description

NZ 0813 ROKEBY GRETA BRIDGE

14/135 East Entrance
Screen to Rokeby
12/1/67 Park, with attached
walls and railings

GV II

Entrance screen with attached walls and railings, early C19. Screen ashlar,
side walls squared stone with cut coping: gates and railings cast iron.
Screen in Greek revival style.

Double gates with moulded spike tops to uprights at both levels, curved lower
rails and downswept tops; similar railings link to screen walls. Walls have
end pilasters (the outer of double width), plinth, Greek Key frieze, coved
cornice and central square-headed opening with gate at right and railings at
left.

Left 20-metre low wall with arched coping carrying spearhead railings (some
tops missing). Right similar wall runs to end pier of Greta Bridge (q.v.).

Original 1725 gate piers moved in early C19 to hold railed screen (q.v.)
alongside A66.

Listing NGR: NZ0859013235

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26454448

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)