Description

WHALTON WHALTON VILLAGE
NZ 1381
(South side)
12/196 Garden walls to
east and north of
The Old Rectory
GV II
Garden walls, C18 with wellhead dated 1909, probably by Sir Edwin Lutyens.
East wall brick in stretcher bond, north wall rubble with cut stone dressings.
L-plan. Tall east wall with flat stone coping ramped down at south end to low
terminal pier; north end of wall is C20. Various internal buttresses. North
(roadside) wall has similar coping and ramp-downs. Wellhead near east end has
round arch with hollow-chamfered hood on foliage-carved stops, enclosing
recessed panel with Latin inscription in memory of Eustace Smith. Slab below,
with decorative tooling, carried on half-round pilasters flanking bronze tap.

Lower section of north wall, to west of ramp-down of coping, has been patched
and altered, and is not of special interest.

Listing NGR: NZ1315881416

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26540084

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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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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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)