Description

REDCAR KIRKLEATHAM NZ 52 SE 4/64 Entrance screen, loggias, forts, flat and outhouses to Sir William Turner's Hospital G.V. I

Entrance gates and screen on dwarf wall, c.175O, probably by James Gibbs, renewed 1964 by W. Dawson (Kirkbymoorside). Loggias, forts, flat and outhouses, late C18, possibly by John Carr. Wrought iron gates and screen; brick wall with sandstone plinth and limestone copings. Sandstone ashlar loggias and forts; brick with stone dressings to flat, outbuildings and returns in courtyard. Lead and bitumen-felt roofs. Stone-paved walkways. Central 2-leaf gates have scrolled double lockrail and segmental overthrow, with foliate and scrolled cresting flanking central coat-of-arms, and elevated lion passant crest. Side panels and flanking screens, on dwarf walls with moulded copings, have similar crestings. Screens flanked by short one-storey, 3-bay, and lower 2-bay quadrant-plan loggias, linking courtyard to terminal mock forts. Inner loggias each have tripartite round arcade with chamfered rusticated piers on plain bases, moulded imposts and archivolts. Flanking slender towers with plinths and cornices, embattled parapets, and blind quatrefoils in panels on returns. Outer loggias have chamfered-rusticated elliptical arcades, with plain square bases, imposts and keystones, moulded cornices and low straight parapets. Forts: 3 x 3 bays, with moulded plinth. Slightly convex middle bays have mock cannon barrels projecting from segment-headed panels under hoodmoulds. End bays have slightly-projecting tapered towers with cross-arrowloops. Continuous pointed-arcaded cornices under embattled parapets Flat roof on west fort; east fort roofless. West return of flat at rear of west loggia, has 2 sash windows with glazing bars, and embattled parapet. Returns in courtyard have paired 6-panel doors with keystones and gauged brick flat arches. Interiors of loggias have coved stucco ceilings and rear walls.

Listing NGR: NZ5927421598

External Links

• Wikidata Q17529401

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Recommended Books

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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  For the Record
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014