Gibside, gate piers

HER Number:
12379

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Gibside, gate piers

Place:
Gibside

Map Sheet:
NZ15NE

Class:
Unassigned

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Gate Pier

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Structure

Description:
Where the carriage drive leaves the Warren Haugh and entered the Green Close there are a pair of gate piers of finely cut and dressed sandstone ashlar with pyramidical sandstone capstones. These are presumably part of John Bowes' work on the carriageway c. 1855.

Easting:
1729

Northing:
5867

Grid Reference:
NZ17295867

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Harry Beamish, Autumn 1993, Summary Table - Gibside; Northern Counties Archaeological Services, 2011, New car parking Warren Haugh and West Wood, Gibside - Archaeological Assessment