Description

GILLING WITH HARTFORTH OLD HALL LANE NZ 10 SE AND SEDBURY (south side)

8/136 Entrance to Old Gillingwood Hall 4.2.69 approximately 5 metres south-west of Gillingwood Hall (formerly listed as Gateway at Old Gillingwood Hall)

GV II

Doorway set within short length of wall. Early-mid C18. For the Wharton family. Ashlar and rubble sandstone. Ashlar doorway set into rubble wall which extends approximately 1 metre on either side. Doorway: round-arched opening with horizontal tooling and archivolt rising from capitals, set within aedicule of fluted Roman Doric engaged columns carrying full Doric entablature with guttae, triglyphs, metopes with paterae and mutules with acanthus motif, surmounted by pediment. To right, part of window surround still set within rubble wall. The rear of the wall shows signs of burning from the fire which destroyed Old Gillingwood Hall in 1750. The doorway is blocked to form a recessed niche. This was the front door to Old Gillingwood Hall.

Listing NGR: NZ1708104722

External Links

• Wikidata Q26460290

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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)