Description

NZ 1855 STANLEY FRONT STREET
(North side)
Tanfield
18/181 Walls, piers, steps,
19/7/50 gates and railings
in front of Tanfield Hall
GV I
Walls, piers, steps, gates and railings. Early C18. Coursed squared sandstone walls
with ashlar coping; ashlar piers: stone steps; wrought iron gates, gatepiers and
railings.
Retaining wall to garden in front of house has projecting coping and supports tall
spearhead railings. Central flight of steps, the lowest swept, to high gates, with
dog-bars and scrolled half-rail below further intermediate bar; central panel with
leafy urn shape. Elaborate overthrow with broad scrolled band holding central
monogram roundel; scrolled cresting raised at centre, with similar roundel and vane,
and at ends above square wrought-iron piers with similar ornament. Scrolled spandrel
panels between these piers and the railings.
Each section of wall has central pilasters supporting decorative iron panel; left and
right ends of wall rise into square, corniced stone piers.
At left, adjacent to wall, 2 tall, square stone piers with pulvinated rustication
have wide cornices and ball finials.

Listing NGR: NZ1887455432

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17529890

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)