Town Wall and Sandwell Gate, Hartlepool
Description: Town Wall and Sandwell Gate
Grade: I
Date Listed: 31 March 1949
English Heritage Building ID: 432931
OS Grid Reference: NZ5246133698
OS Grid Coordinates: 452461, 533698
Latitude/Longitude: 54.6956, -1.1876
Location: Town Wall, Hartlepool TS24 0JQ
Locality: Hartlepool
Local Authority: Hartlepool
County: Durham
Country: England
Postcode: TS24 0JQ
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This building is also a scheduled monument.
Listing Text
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
Source: English Heritage
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