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Latitude: 54.6956 / 54°41'44"N
Longitude: -1.1876 / 1°11'15"W
OS Eastings: 452461
OS Northings: 533698
OS Grid: NZ524336
Mapcode National: GBR NG44.PJ
Mapcode Global: WHD6F.Q7PM
Plus Code: 9C6WMRW6+6X
Entry Name: Town Wall and Sandwell Gate
Listing Date: 31 March 1949
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1250535
English Heritage Legacy ID: 432931
ID on this website: 101250535
Location: Croft on Heugh, Hartlepool, County Durham, TS24
County: Hartlepool
Civil Parish: Headland
Built-Up Area: Hartlepool
Traditional County: Durham
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): County Durham
Church of England Parish: Hartlepool St Hilda
Church of England Diocese: Durham
Tagged with: City walls
HARTLEPOOL TOWN WALL
NZ 5233
(south side), Headland
8/118 Town Wall and Sandwell
Gate.
31.3.49
- I
Town fortifications/retaining wall, fronting onto Commissioners' Harbour;
early C14. Roughly-dressed and coursed limestone and random rubble
limestone. Between 4m and 6m high; between 2m and 3m thick; approximately
380m long, including Sandwell Gate. Battered buttresses to seaward side;
rampart walk above road level on landward side, behind parapet.
Incorporating late C14 pointed-arched gateway, Sandwell Gate, on seaward
side: arch of 2 chamfered orders, flanked by cut-water-like buttresses
continued up to full height of parapet above string course. Within the arch
a segmental barrel vault with chamfered ribs. Shallow triangular arch to
landward side. Scheduled Ancient Monument No. 24.
Listing NGR: NZ5246133698
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