Balustraded Retaining Wall With Gateways, Steps and Ha-has to Rear of Woolverstone Hall
BALUSTRADED RETAINING WALL WITH GATEWAYS, STEPS AND HA-HAS TO REAR OF WOOLVERSTONE HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1036945
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Balustraded Retaining Wall With Gateways, Steps and Ha-has to Rear of Woolverstone Hall
- Statutory Address:
- BALUSTRADED RETAINING WALL WITH GATEWAYS, STEPS AND HA-HAS TO REAR OF WOOLVERSTONE HALL
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1036945
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Balustraded Retaining Wall With Gateways, Steps and Ha-has to Rear of Woolverstone Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- BALUSTRADED RETAINING WALL WITH GATEWAYS, STEPS AND HA-HAS TO REAR OF WOOLVERSTONE HALL
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BALUSTRADED RETAINING WALL WITH GATEWAYS, STEPS AND HA-HAS TO REAR OF WOOLVERSTONE HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Babergh (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Woolverstone
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 19573 38662
Details
TM 1938 WOOLVERSTONE WOOLVERSTONE PARK 7/47 Balustraded retaining wall with gateways, steps and - ha-has to rear of Woolverstone Hall GV II Retaining wall with gates and ha-has. 1850s by W A Nesfield for Berners family. Artificial stone and brick with cast and wrought iron gates. Rusticated ha-has from 1-2 metres in height. Rusticated walls surmounted by balustrades. Opposed gateways have corniced piers with banded ball finials. Central gates flanked by railings with fleur-de-lys bars and spearhead dogbars. Gates with central oval and scrollwork. Forms part of garden layout illustrated in Gardeners Chronicle 16.2.1867 p158.
Listing NGR: TM1957338662
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 277326
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gardeners Chronicle in 16 February, (1867), 158
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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