GARDEN TERRACES C 15 YARDS SOUTH OF OVINGHAM VICARAGE

GARDEN TERRACES C 15 YARDS SOUTH OF OVINGHAM VICARAGE, WEST ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1044946
Date first listed:: 07-Mar-1985
List Entry Name:: GARDEN TERRACES C 15 YARDS SOUTH OF OVINGHAM VICARAGE
Statutory Address:: GARDEN TERRACES C 15 YARDS SOUTH OF OVINGHAM VICARAGE, WEST ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1044946
Date first listed:: 07-Mar-1985
List Entry Name:: GARDEN TERRACES C 15 YARDS SOUTH OF OVINGHAM VICARAGE
Statutory Address 1:: GARDEN TERRACES C 15 YARDS SOUTH OF OVINGHAM VICARAGE, WEST 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: GARDEN TERRACES C 15 YARDS SOUTH OF OVINGHAM VICARAGE, WEST ROAD

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

District:: Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Ovingham
National Grid Reference:: NZ 08511 63608

Details

NZ 0863 - 0963 OVINGHAM WEST ROAD

22/123 Garden Terraces c 15 yards south of Ovingham Vicarage GV II

Terrace walls and steps. Probably C17. Random rubble and dressed stone. 2 terrace retaining walls with steeply ridged coping, broken near the centre by 2 flights of steps. Similar 3rd retaining wall at end of garden. Square hollowed-out blocks at corners of walls probably acted as bases to statues or finials. Datestone at foot of steps records Tyne flood level Dec. 31 1815. Another, higher up records level for April 1771.

Listing NGR: NZ0851163608

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

Legacy System number:: 239478
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.