CANONS ASHBY HOUSE, WALLS RUNNING FROM LION GATES TO SOUTH TO SOUTH EAST CORNER OF HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1075306
Date first listed:: 18-Jan-1968
List Entry Name:: CANONS ASHBY HOUSE, WALLS RUNNING FROM LION GATES TO SOUTH TO SOUTH EAST CORNER OF HOUSE
Statutory Address:: CANONS ASHBY HOUSE, WALLS RUNNING FROM LION GATES TO SOUTH TO SOUTH EAST CORNER OF HOUSE

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Date:: 2004-09-22
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1075306
Date first listed:: 18-Jan-1968
Date of most recent amendment:: 24-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:: CANONS ASHBY HOUSE, WALLS RUNNING FROM LION GATES TO SOUTH TO SOUTH EAST CORNER OF HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: CANONS ASHBY HOUSE, WALLS RUNNING FROM LION GATES TO SOUTH TO SOUTH EAST CORNER OF HOUSE

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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Location

Statutory Address:: CANONS ASHBY HOUSE, WALLS RUNNING FROM LION GATES TO SOUTH TO SOUTH EAST CORNER OF HOUSE

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

District:: West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Canons Ashby
National Grid Reference:: SP5769150591

Details

SP5750 19/36 18/01/68

CANONS ASHBY Canons Ashby House, walls running from Lion Gates to S to SE corner of house (Formerly listed as Walls to court and garden and gatepiers at Canons Ashby)

GV II

Garden walls, gates and gatepiers. Early C18. Coursed squared ironstone, ironstone ashlar, some limestone dressings. Stone coped wall running from Lion Gates (g.v.) at bottom of orchard N, enclosing E side of garden to gates and gatepiers to park. Gatepiers have moulded plinths, cornices, plain sides and support suits of armour on square moulded bases with splayed feet. Wrought iron gates and overthrow. The wall then runs N to meet the SE angle of Canons Ashby House with a doorway at that end with 4-centred chamfered arch head and jambs. External buttresses to E, one dated 1873. (Canons Ashby gardens and park are included in the HBMC Register of Gardens at Grade II*)

Listing NGR: SP5769150591

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 30 Northamptonshire,

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