POOL AND FOUNTAIN APPROXIMATELY 10 YARDS SOUTH OF THE ORANGERY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1191842
Date first listed:: 17-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:: POOL AND FOUNTAIN APPROXIMATELY 10 YARDS SOUTH OF THE ORANGERY
Statutory Address:: POOL AND FOUNTAIN APPROXIMATELY 10 YARDS SOUTH OF THE ORANGERY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1191842
Date first listed:: 17-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:: POOL AND FOUNTAIN APPROXIMATELY 10 YARDS SOUTH OF THE ORANGERY
Statutory Address 1:: POOL AND FOUNTAIN APPROXIMATELY 10 YARDS SOUTH OF THE ORANGERY

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:: POOL AND FOUNTAIN APPROXIMATELY 10 YARDS SOUTH OF THE ORANGERY

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

County:: Staffordshire
District:: Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
Parish:: Farley
National Grid Reference:: SK 07480 43378

Details

SK 0643-0743 FARLEY C.P. ALTON PARK

12/105 Pool and fountain approximately 10 yards south of The Orangery GV II

Pool and fountain. Early C19. Circular ashlar pool with concave sides and central lead figure holding a basin and fountain. This item forms part of the important garden layout at Alton Towers (q.v. which is included at- Grade I on the HBMC Gardens Register. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SK0748043378

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Legacy System number:: 275100
Legacy System:: LBS

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

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