THE BIRDCAGE ARBOUR IN MELBOURNE HALL GARDENS

THE BIRDCAGE ARBOUR IN MELBOURNE HALL GARDENS, CHURCH CLOSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1096375
Date first listed:: 10-Nov-1967
List Entry Name:: THE BIRDCAGE ARBOUR IN MELBOURNE HALL GARDENS
Statutory Address:: THE BIRDCAGE ARBOUR IN MELBOURNE HALL GARDENS, CHURCH CLOSE

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Date:: 2001-04-21
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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1096375
Date first listed:: 10-Nov-1967
List Entry Name:: THE BIRDCAGE ARBOUR IN MELBOURNE HALL GARDENS
Statutory Address 1:: THE BIRDCAGE ARBOUR IN MELBOURNE HALL GARDENS, CHURCH CLOSE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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Statutory Address:: THE BIRDCAGE ARBOUR IN MELBOURNE HALL GARDENS, CHURCH CLOSE

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County:: Derbyshire
District:: South Derbyshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Melbourne
National Grid Reference:: SK3921924985

Details

SK 38/3925 PARISH OF MELBOURNE CHURCH CLOSE 6/79 (East Side) 10.11.67 The Birdcage Arbour in Melbourne Hall Gardens GV I Garden pavilion. c1705-10 by Robert Bakewell. Erected as the centre piece of a French style garden designed by Royal Gardeners to Queen Anne, London and Wise, for Thomas Coke of Melbourne Hall, with work carried out by William Cooke of Walcot. Stuccoed brick and wrought iron. Unique cage-like structure of elaborate workmanship with open domed roof and open cupola over, also with small room behind with leaded roof. Flight of five stone steps lead up to the arbour which has an advanced doorcase flanked by elaborate panels of decorative ironwork with scrolls and foliage. Similar panels to sides of the Birdcage and above is the domed roof with iron oak leaves intertwining with scrolled panels. Similar treatment to cupola which is surmounted by a tall finial. Small room behind has a large segmental arch, into the Birdcage, with moulded keystone. Inside it has a fitted bench with turned legs. Included in the Derbyshire Historic Gardens Register at Grade I. See item 6/63 for sources. Also Country Life Jan 23, 1975, Pg 228.

Listing NGR: SK3921924985

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Legacy System number:: 83064
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Anthony, J, Gardens of Britain, (1979)
Green, D, Gardener to Queen Anne, (1956)
Hussey, C, English Gardens and Landscapes 1700-1750, (1967)
Kerr, V , Melbourne Hall Gardens, (1984)
Pevsner, N, Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Derbyshire, (1978)
'Country Life' in 7 April, (1928), 492
'Country Life' in 23 January, (1975), 228
'Country Life' in 23 September, (1899), 368
'Country Life' in 14 April, (1928), 526
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 10 Derbyshire,

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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.