Description

SD 52 SE CUERDEN SHADY LANE

Iron gates at foot of terrace
3/99 steps to east of Cuerden Hall
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GV II

Ornamental iron gates, perhaps 1819 by Lewis Wyatt. Between stone
gatepiers in boundary wall of garden, tall iron railings extending to
open-work iron pillars from which hang a pair of gates the tops of which
are ramped down to the centre; the decorative emphasis is vertical, the
railings, pillars and gates having straight vertical principal bars,
short slim dog bars rising between and linked to them by wavy braces
below the heads. In the centre of each gate and railing (flanked by twisted
bars), and the pillars,are more narrowly-set bars supporting decorative
scrolls, and there is an upper border of volutes beneath the top rail,
which carries 6 small urn finials; the pillars also carry raised urn
finials.

Listing NGR: SD5646823967

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26570400

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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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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)