TUNNEL ENTRANCE 75 METRES SOUTH OF CHINESE GARDEN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1037842
Date first listed:: 20-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:: TUNNEL ENTRANCE 75 METRES SOUTH OF CHINESE GARDEN
Statutory Address:: TUNNEL ENTRANCE 75 METRES SOUTH OF CHINESE GARDEN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1037842
Date first listed:: 20-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:: TUNNEL ENTRANCE 75 METRES SOUTH OF CHINESE GARDEN
Statutory Address 1:: TUNNEL ENTRANCE 75 METRES SOUTH OF CHINESE GARDEN

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: TUNNEL ENTRANCE 75 METRES SOUTH OF CHINESE GARDEN

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Staffordshire
District:: Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
Parish:: Biddulph
National Grid Reference:: SJ 89232 59091

Details

BIDDULPH C.P. BIDDULPH GRANGE SJ 85 NE SJ 89235907 7/17 Tunnel entrance 75m south - of Chinese Garden

GV II

Ornamental garden building garden tunnel entrance. 1848-1860, by John Bateman. Random coursed rock-faced natural boulders placed to form a roughly-arched tunnel-entry; side walls of coursed vaulting. 2m high and 12m long, of curved layout. Arched entry to south appears dressed to represent clasped hands to keystone. Forms part of perimeter peram- bulation from the main house through the pinetum and terminated by the Tea House (q.v.). The tunnel is part of the Chinese Garden landscaping formed by the mounding of massive imported local boulders.

Listing NGR: SJ8923259091

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Legacy System number:: 275222
Legacy System:: LBS

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 38 Staffordshire,

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.