Description

GILLING WITH HARTFORTH OLD HALL LANE
NZ 10 SE AND SEDBURY (south side)

8/136 Entrance to Old
Gillingwood Hall
4.2.69 approximately 5 metres
south-west of Gillingwood
Hall
(formerly listed as
Gateway at Old
Gillingwood Hall)

GV II

Doorway set within short length of wall. Early-mid C18. For the Wharton
family. Ashlar and rubble sandstone. Ashlar doorway set into rubble wall
which extends approximately 1 metre on either side. Doorway: round-arched
opening with horizontal tooling and archivolt rising from capitals, set
within aedicule of fluted Roman Doric engaged columns carrying full Doric
entablature with guttae, triglyphs, metopes with paterae and mutules with
acanthus motif, surmounted by pediment. To right, part of window surround
still set within rubble wall. The rear of the wall shows signs of burning
from the fire which destroyed Old Gillingwood Hall in 1750. The doorway is
blocked to form a recessed niche. This was the front door to Old
Gillingwood Hall.

Listing NGR: NZ1708104722

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26460290

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5