Cock Pit and Garden Feature at Moor Hall
COCK PIT AND GARDEN FEATURE AT MOOR HALL, MOOR HALL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1067125
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Cock Pit and Garden Feature at Moor Hall
- Statutory Address:
- COCK PIT AND GARDEN FEATURE AT MOOR HALL, MOOR HALL ROAD
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- Date:
- 1999-10-10
- Reference:
- IOE01/01314/18
- Rights:
- © Mr J Martin. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1067125
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Cock Pit and Garden Feature at Moor Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- COCK PIT AND GARDEN FEATURE AT MOOR HALL, MOOR HALL ROAD
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:
- COCK PIT AND GARDEN FEATURE AT MOOR HALL, MOOR HALL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Birmingham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Sutton Coldfield
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 12944 98387
Details
SP 19 NW SUTTON COLDFIELD MOOR HALL ROAD
2/10019 Cock Pit and Garden Feature
at Moor Hall
II
Part of a former cock pit or bear pit, said to be of c.1750, altered to a sunken garden, presumably in the late C19. Of the cock pit there remain two stretches of red, random rubble sandstone walls forming a circle c.20 metres across, and varying in height from c.4 metres to c.1 metre with the slope of the ground, and having a segmental-arched alcove and a pair of buttresses on their north side, flanking the later steps. The circle can be entered from raised ground to the north, down a double flight of steps, or from the south through a Classical arch. The steps run up either side of a circular pool, with inner flanking walls which meet above the pool, forming a segmental arch over it; the underside of the arch and the wall at the back of the pool are encrusted with porous stone, perhaps tufa; above the steps is a short covered way, of timber framing resting on flanking walls and roofed with tiles, rather like a lychgate. The arch to the south may have been introduced from elsewhere; it is treated as a triumphal arch on both sides, having impost, simple archivolt and keystone, flanked by pairs of rusticated Doric pilasters, between each of which is a round-arched niche with a square window over having transoms in the form of an 'X' cornice and parapet; the inside of the arch is encrusted with porous stone.
Listing NGR: SP1294498387
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473090
- 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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