THE PROSPECT TOWER AND WALL AND RAILINGS TO THE SOUTH

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1192015
Date first listed:: 03-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:: THE PROSPECT TOWER AND WALL AND RAILINGS TO THE SOUTH
Statutory Address:: THE PROSPECT TOWER AND WALL AND RAILINGS TO THE SOUTH

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1192015
Date first listed:: 03-Jan-1967
Date of most recent amendment:: 17-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:: THE PROSPECT TOWER AND WALL AND RAILINGS TO THE SOUTH
Statutory Address 1:: THE PROSPECT TOWER AND WALL AND RAILINGS TO THE SOUTH

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

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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:: THE PROSPECT TOWER AND WALL AND RAILINGS TO THE SOUTH

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County:: Staffordshire
District:: Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
Parish:: Farley
National Grid Reference:: SK 07743 43326

Details

SK 0643-0743 FARLEY C.P. ALTON PARK

12/115 3/1/67 The Prospect Tower and wall and railings to the south. (Formerly listed as "The Pagoda") - II* Observation tower, wall and railings. Circa 1824. By Robert Abraham. Painted ashlar and cast iron. Octagonal plan tower with Gothic details. 3 stages receeding in diameter from bottom to top, the 2 lower stages have an outer arcade of 4-centred arches springing from banded and clustered shafts, the upper stage has pointed windows beneath pointed hoods which spring from the paired shafts at each corner; ogee glass dome with cast iron tracery. Approximately 10 yard length of ashlar wall surmounted by low cast iron railings with Gothic arcading 3 yards south of the Prospect Tower and part of the same architectural composition. This item forms part of the important garden layout at Alton Towers (q.v.) which is included at Grade I on the HBMC Garden Register.

Listing NGR: SK0774343326

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Legacy System number:: 275110
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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.