GARDEN WALL TO EAST OF SUNKEN GARDENS AT SITE OF DRAKELOW HALL

GARDEN WALL TO EAST OF SUNKEN GARDENS AT SITE OF DRAKELOW HALL, WALTON ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1311251
Date first listed:: 12-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:: GARDEN WALL TO EAST OF SUNKEN GARDENS AT SITE OF DRAKELOW HALL
Statutory Address:: GARDEN WALL TO EAST OF SUNKEN GARDENS AT SITE OF DRAKELOW HALL, WALTON ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1311251
Date first listed:: 12-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:: GARDEN WALL TO EAST OF SUNKEN GARDENS AT SITE OF DRAKELOW HALL
Statutory Address 1:: GARDEN WALL TO EAST OF SUNKEN GARDENS AT SITE OF DRAKELOW HALL, WALTON ROAD

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: GARDEN WALL TO EAST OF SUNKEN GARDENS AT SITE OF DRAKELOW HALL, WALTON ROAD

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

County:: Derbyshire
District:: South Derbyshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Drakelow
National Grid Reference:: SK 24087 20420

Details

SK 22 SW PARISH OF DRAKELOW WALTON ROAD 1/17 (North Side) Garden Wall to East of Sunken Gardens at Site of Drakelow Hall GV II

Garden wall with gateway. Late C18 with c1902 alterations by Reginald Blomfield. Red brick with chamfered brick copings and stone dressings. 10 feet high curving wall, enclosing former orchard, with blocked pointed door to west end, and central c1902 C18 style gateway. This has a moulded rusticated semi- circular arch with good quality C18 style ironwork gate. Rising above the jambs of the arch there are plain pilasters topped by large ball finials and between the two there is a recessed stone cornice. The eastern end of the wall is now in poor condition. Drakelow Hall was demolished in 1934 and Drakelow Power Station now occupies most of the site.

Listing NGR: SK2408720420

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 82949
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

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