TERRACES WITH ORNAMENTAL BALUSTRADES AND STEPS TO SOUTH OF THE HALL, INCLUDING RETAINING WALLS RUNNING TO EAST AND WEST AND GARDEN WALL WITH GATEPIERS TO EAST SIDE OF TERRACES

TERRACES WITH ORNAMENTAL BALUSTRADES AND STEPS TO SOUTH OF THE HALL, INCLUDING RETAINING WALLS RUNNING TO EAST AND WEST AND GARDEN WALL WITH GATEPIERS TO EAST SIDE OF TERRACES, HOLT ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1036053
Date first listed:: 23-Aug-1974
List Entry Name:: TERRACES WITH ORNAMENTAL BALUSTRADES AND STEPS TO SOUTH OF THE HALL, INCLUDING RETAINING WALLS RUNNING TO EAST AND WEST AND GARDEN WALL WITH GATEPIERS TO EAST SIDE OF TERRACES
Statutory Address:: TERRACES WITH ORNAMENTAL BALUSTRADES AND STEPS TO SOUTH OF THE HALL, INCLUDING RETAINING WALLS RUNNING TO EAST AND WEST AND GARDEN WALL WITH GATEPIERS TO EAST SIDE OF TERRACES, HOLT ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1036053
Date first listed:: 23-Aug-1974
List Entry Name:: TERRACES WITH ORNAMENTAL BALUSTRADES AND STEPS TO SOUTH OF THE HALL, INCLUDING RETAINING WALLS RUNNING TO EAST AND WEST AND GARDEN WALL WITH GATEPIERS TO EAST SIDE OF TERRACES
Statutory Address 1:: TERRACES WITH ORNAMENTAL BALUSTRADES AND STEPS TO SOUTH OF THE HALL, INCLUDING RETAINING WALLS RUNNING TO EAST AND WEST AND GARDEN WALL WITH GATEPIERS TO EAST SIDE OF TERRACES, HOLT 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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: TERRACES WITH ORNAMENTAL BALUSTRADES AND STEPS TO SOUTH OF THE HALL, INCLUDING RETAINING WALLS RUNNING TO EAST AND WEST AND GARDEN WALL WITH GATEPIERS TO EAST SIDE OF TERRACES, HOLT ROAD

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

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Bradford-on-Avon
National Grid Reference:: ST8285660886

Details

1. HOLT ROAD 5411 (South Side)

Terraces with ornamental balustrades and steps to south of the Hall, including retaining walls running to east and west and garden wall with gatepiers to east side of terraces ST 8260 2/65A

II* GV 2. In front of the house is a paved terrace with open strapwork balustrades surmounted by ornamental urns and carved lions. Ashlar. Probably early C18. Central steps with similar balustrades lead down to a lawn, from each side of which further steps lead to the main lawn at a lower level. Fronting the lawns to east and west of the house, and joined to the balustrades of upper terrace, are high retaining walls. Probably earlyCl8. Coursed rubble with flat pilasters topped by carved stone urns. Similar lower retaining walls (probably late C19 in date) front the intermediate terraces to east and west of the house. One pair of gatepiers set in a wall at east end of the lower terrace. Probably C18. Ashlar. Piers have stepped corners and moulded entablatures supporting finely carved stone pineapples. Double wrought-iron gates with foliated scrolls. Also pair of gatepiers to east of north front. Probably C18. Ashlar. Urns on top.

The Hall forms a group with its terraces, walls, gatepiers, balustrades, 2 garden seats and wall around the grounds.

Listing NGR: ST8285660886

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Legacy System number:: 312566
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.