Description

SK 02 SW BLITHFIELD C.P. BLITHFIELD PARK

13/89 - Main gateway to Blithfield Hall with flanking walls

GV II*

Gateway and walls. c.1820. Brick, plastered and lined as ashlar. 4-centred gateway arch with nail studded doors, panelled spandrels and hood mould terminating in heads, moulded string above to crenellated parapet between 2 octagonal corner turrets with pseudo machicolated battlements; flanked by short lengths of battlemented wall each terminating with a battlemented octagonal turret, the right hand one adjoining the screen wall to the kitchen courtyard (q.v. under courtyard walls and outbuildings east of Blithfield Hall) the left hand one adjoined by a low crenellated and buttressed wall sloping down to join the south wall of the outer courtyard (q.v. under Bridge, gate piers, wall and ha-ha to south of Blithfield Hall).

Listing NGR: SK0453423909

External Links

• Wikidata Q17557276

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Recommended Books

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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)