Description

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SU28NE
5/75
10/11/52

COMPTON BEAUCHAMP
Compton Beauchamp House, gates
gatepiers and walls approx 35 metres north

(Formerly listed as Compton Beauchamp House, gates gatepiers and walls approx 200 metres east)

(Formerly listed as Compton Beauchamp House with gatepiers, railings and gates
to drive)

GV
II*

Gatepiers and attached walls at Compton Beauchamp House (q.v.) c.1710. Limestone
ashlar. Square main piers, each with moulded plinth block and entablature
surmounted by griffin's head. Fine wrought-iron gates have segmental
wrought-iron arch over with the cypher of Edward Richards. Walling swept round
in elliptical curve to piers which are surmounted by urns with gadrooned bases
and garlanded tops. The walling to either side of these piers is divided into 4
bays each by square piers surmounted by pineapples; continuous moulded plinth
and coping with wrought-iron crossed spears in the spaces between the piers.

Listing NGR: SU2799286982

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17550240

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Recommended Books

• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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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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  For the Record
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)