Wall Enclosing Raised Garden to North and East of Lydeard House
WALL ENCLOSING RAISED GARDEN TO NORTH AND EAST OF LYDEARD HOUSE, WEST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1059220
- Date first listed:
- 04-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Wall Enclosing Raised Garden to North and East of Lydeard House
- Statutory Address:
- WALL ENCLOSING RAISED GARDEN TO NORTH AND EAST OF LYDEARD HOUSE, WEST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1059220
- Date first listed:
- 04-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Wall Enclosing Raised Garden to North and East of Lydeard House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WALL ENCLOSING RAISED GARDEN TO NORTH AND EAST OF LYDEARD HOUSE, WEST STREET
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:
- WALL ENCLOSING RAISED GARDEN TO NORTH AND EAST OF LYDEARD HOUSE, WEST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bishop's Lydeard
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 16693 29916
Details
ST1629 BISHOP'S LYDEARD CP WEST STREET (North side)
10/51 Wall enclosing raised garden to North and East of Lydeard House -
GV II
Garden wall enclosing the raised garden rear of Lydeard House (qv) on the North and East fronts. Late C18. Hindu - Moorish style. Red sandstone random rubble plinth with limestone wall of pierced narrow arched openings about 1 metre in height. Piers, square with moulded caps, walls swept and ramped up to them with pierced stonework. East wall interupted by C20 insertion of flight of 5 steps with red sandstone random rubble dwarf walls swept back. North wall recedes and breaks forward with picturesque asymmetry.
Listing NGR: ST1669329916
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 270262
- 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.
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