Gibside Estate, gate piers

HER Number

12379

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Gibside Estate, gate piers

Place

Gibside

Map Sheet

NZ15NE

Class

Domestic

Site Type: Broad

Estate Building

Site Type: Specific

Estate Building

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

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

417290

Northing

558670

Grid Reference

NZ417290558670

Sources

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