TERRACE PARAPET,RETAINING WALL AND STAIRCASE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1073793
Date first listed:: 18-Sep-1984
List Entry Name:: TERRACE PARAPET,RETAINING WALL AND STAIRCASE
Statutory Address:: TERRACE PARAPET,RETAINING WALL AND STAIRCASE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1073793
Date first listed:: 18-Sep-1984
List Entry Name:: TERRACE PARAPET,RETAINING WALL AND STAIRCASE
Statutory Address 1:: TERRACE PARAPET,RETAINING WALL AND STAIRCASE

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:: TERRACE PARAPET,RETAINING WALL AND STAIRCASE

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

District:: Rutland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Burley
National Grid Reference:: SK 88424 10152

Details

SK 81 SE BURLEY 3/9 Burley on the Hill: Terrace parapet, retaining wall and staircase GV II*

Formal terrace on south front of house C18. Long low parapet, balustraded, alternating with moulded stone panels, above high stone retaining wall containing shallow arched recesses. 2 symmetrical flights of steps with stone balustrades and sweeping stone rail rise to the central projecting section of terrace. It may be the sole survivor of 3 tiered terraces built by Daniel Finch, c1710, though possibly as reconstructed by Repton who was responsible for the removal of the lower terrace, c1796. Buckingham's house also had tiered terraces, so that this represents a continuing of the tradition. From a distance, it acts as an important visual base and foundation of the house.

Listing NGR: SK8842410152

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Legacy System number:: 187290
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 26 Leicestershire,

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.