Description

SP5750
19/33
18/01/68

CANONS ASHBY
Canons Ashby House, gates and gatepiers to Green Court
(Formerly listed as Walls to court and garden and gatepiers at Canons Ashby)

GV
II*

Gate and gatepiers. Early C18. Ironstone ashlar with limestone dressings. Piers
have moulded plinths and cornices, panelled sides and thin moulded obelisks on
octagonal feet supported by pairs of stone scrolls at each corner. Original
painted oak gates, with barley sugar twist rails, 'Venetian window' arches to
each leaf with Tuscan columns and keyblocks joined to shaped top rail. H-hinges.
Gates recently restored by National Trust with much new timber.
(Canons Ashby gardens and park are included in the H.B.M.C. Register of Gardens
at Grade II*)

Listing NGR: SP5767150694

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17557666

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)