Monkton Lane, The Grange, walls, gateways and gates
Monkton Lane, The Grange, walls, gateways and gates
HER Number
8023
District
S Tyneside
Site Name
Monkton Lane, The Grange, walls, gateways and gates
Place
Monkton
Map Sheet
NZ36SW
Class
Monument <By Form>
Site Type: Broad
Boundary
Site Type: Specific
Boundary Wall
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Structure
Description
This structure was listed Grade II in 1985 with the following description:
'Boundary wall to garden. C18. Red brick in English garden wall bond of 5 rows of stretchers and one of headers having 2 gateways. West gateway sandstone piers supporting moulded lintel and finials; east gateway rendered stone surround. West gateway contains a panelled door, east gateway a boarded door.' {1}
This ivy clad wall is eroded in places. It has flat stone copes, colour-matched mortar, a bumper stone to the corner, sone pyramidal corner caps and several gateways set in stone piers. The east gateway on Monkton Lane has a boarded timber door with ornate door furniture in a rendered stone surround. The west gateway has a later panelled door. The listed brick wall has an unlisted stone rubble return along the north footpath. This has a third gateway with a stone lintel. The fourth gate is the carriage entrance with double timber gates between moulded stone piers with ogee finials. The entrance has been widened {2}. LISTED GRADE 2
'Boundary wall to garden. C18. Red brick in English garden wall bond of 5 rows of stretchers and one of headers having 2 gateways. West gateway sandstone piers supporting moulded lintel and finials; east gateway rendered stone surround. West gateway contains a panelled door, east gateway a boarded door.' {1}
This ivy clad wall is eroded in places. It has flat stone copes, colour-matched mortar, a bumper stone to the corner, sone pyramidal corner caps and several gateways set in stone piers. The east gateway on Monkton Lane has a boarded timber door with ornate door furniture in a rendered stone surround. The west gateway has a later panelled door. The listed brick wall has an unlisted stone rubble return along the north footpath. This has a third gateway with a stone lintel. The fourth gate is the carriage entrance with double timber gates between moulded stone piers with ogee finials. The entrance has been widened {2}. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
432080
Northing
563720
Grid Reference
NZ432080563720
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special architectural or Historic Interest, 2/93;
North of England Civic Trust on behalf of South Tyneside Council, March 2006, Monkton Conservation Area Character Appraisal;
N. Pevsner and E. Williamson, 1983, The Buildings of England: County Durham (second edition);
NECT, 2015, National Heritage at Risk Grade II Project;
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1025200
North of England Civic Trust on behalf of South Tyneside Council, March 2006, Monkton Conservation Area Character Appraisal;
N. Pevsner and E. Williamson, 1983, The Buildings of England: County Durham (second edition);
NECT, 2015, National Heritage at Risk Grade II Project;
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1025200