Description

NZ 11 SW OVINGTON OVINGTON VILLAGE
(West end)

7/119 Walls, outbuilding
and railings to
30.7.87 south of Ovington
Hall

GV II

Garden walls, railings and outbuilding. Mid-C18. Rubble with cut dressings;
stone slate roof on outbuilding; wrought-iron railings.

4-metre high east wall has chamfered coping, and curved step up to boarded
door with wood tympanum in rusticated arch with imposts and keystone; to
south low pent outbuilding with blocked stone-surround window, and 6-panel
door in raised stone surround, on internal face of wall.

1-metre high south wall has similar coping ramped up at each end, carrying
low spiked railings; gateway near east end has small rusticated piers with
banded pyramidal caps.

2.5-metre high west wall has boarded door in raised stone surround; north
part steps in, with old privy in angle, before joining south-west corner
of Hall.

Attached farmbuildings on exterior of west wall are not of special interest.

Listing NGR: NZ1299814683

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26414829

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