Description

WHALTON WHALTON VILLAGE NZ 1381 (North side) 12/165 Garden walls and gate piers to south of Manor House and west of Manor House GV II Garden wall and gatepiers, 1908-9 by Sir Edwin Lutyens. Squared stone, snecked stone, coursed rubble, with cut dressings; ashlar gatepiers. Tall gate piers flanking Manor House entrance have plinth, moulded capitals and decorated urn finials; attached wrought-iron box-section jambs are remnants of ornate gates removed c.1940. Approach walls link piers to house; that to left snecked stone, to right coursed rubble; heavy flat coping, each wall with vertical-panelled door in 4-centred frame under stepped keyed lintel. To left of entrance squared stone wall with pilasters and slightly-raised coping; left return holds gate with pyramid-capped piers, and links to south-west corner of West Manor House (q.v.). To right of entrance coursed rubble wall with flat coping broken by section with railings, at time of survey obscured by holly hedge, between 2 pyramid-capped piers.

Listing NGR: NZ1321381430

External Links

• Wikidata Q26530661

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (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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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)