BALUSTRADING AND WALLS TO TERRACES RENDCOMB COLLEGE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1090166
Date first listed:: 12-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: BALUSTRADING AND WALLS TO TERRACES RENDCOMB COLLEGE
Statutory Address:: BALUSTRADING AND WALLS TO TERRACES RENDCOMB COLLEGE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1090166
Date first listed:: 12-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: BALUSTRADING AND WALLS TO TERRACES RENDCOMB COLLEGE
Statutory Address 1:: BALUSTRADING AND WALLS TO TERRACES RENDCOMB COLLEGE

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:: BALUSTRADING AND WALLS TO TERRACES RENDCOMB COLLEGE

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County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Cotswold (District Authority)
Parish:: Rendcomb
National Grid Reference:: SP 01711 09834

Details

RENDCOMB RENDCOMB SP 00 NW 6/261 Balustrading and walls to terraces Rendcomb College

GV II

Stone balustrading and ashlar retaining walls immediately south and east of Rendcomb College (q.v.). Built c1866. Designed by P.C. Hardwick for Sir F.H. Goldsmid. Balustrading outlining a rectangular area immediately south of the entrance front. The balustrading on the north side is set on an ashlar wall c1.5m height and is linked to the lower balustrading via a moulded bracket decorated with fruit and flowers at the north-east corner; lion's head above the bracket. Entrances towards the centre of each side of the balustrading flanked by stone urns with gadrooned bases and lions' heads in the position of the handles. The urns flanking the southern entrance have been removed. Two straight ashlar walls retain terraces on the south side; similar walls retain a lower 3-sided terrace. Urns at intervals along the terrace retaining walls and at the top and bottom of the flights of stone steps linking the terraces.

Listing NGR: SP0171109834

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Legacy System number:: 131285
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.