GROUP OF 4 URNS IN CENTRE OF FORMAL GARDENS OF SOMERLEYTON HALL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1031934
Date first listed:: 29-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF 4 URNS IN CENTRE OF FORMAL GARDENS OF SOMERLEYTON HALL
Statutory Address:: GROUP OF 4 URNS IN CENTRE OF FORMAL GARDENS OF SOMERLEYTON HALL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1031934
Date first listed:: 29-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF 4 URNS IN CENTRE OF FORMAL GARDENS OF SOMERLEYTON HALL
Statutory Address 1:: GROUP OF 4 URNS IN CENTRE OF FORMAL GARDENS OF SOMERLEYTON HALL

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:: GROUP OF 4 URNS IN CENTRE OF FORMAL GARDENS OF SOMERLEYTON HALL

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

County:: Suffolk
District:: East Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Somerleyton, Ashby and Herringfleet
National Grid Reference:: TM 49229 97769

Details

SOMERLEYTON SOMERLEYTON PARK TM 49 NE 4/60 Group of 4 urns in centre of formal gardens of Somerleyton Hall GV II Group of 4 identical urns. Circa 1850 by John Thomas for Sir Morton Peto. Marble, on square stone bases; about 1.3m high. Each has 4 brackets with lion heads. These urns were formerly on the periphery of the parterre and were moved closer together when the formal gardens were re-arranged after World War II. Listed for group value as part of the formal garden originally laid out by Nesfield. Forms part of a garden included in the HBMC County Register of Gardens at Grade II*.

Listing NGR: TM4922997769

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Legacy System:: LBS

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 39 Suffolk,

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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.