Nursery Garden Walls and Attached Outbuildings at Elvaston Castle

NURSERY GARDEN WALLS AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS AT ELVASTON CASTLE, BORROWASH ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1096400
Date first listed:
11-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:
Nursery Garden Walls and Attached Outbuildings at Elvaston Castle
Statutory Address:
NURSERY GARDEN WALLS AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS AT ELVASTON CASTLE, BORROWASH ROAD
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1096400
Date first listed:
11-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:
Nursery Garden Walls and Attached Outbuildings at Elvaston Castle
Statutory Address 1:
NURSERY GARDEN WALLS AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS AT ELVASTON CASTLE, BORROWASH ROAD

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
NURSERY GARDEN WALLS AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS AT ELVASTON CASTLE, BORROWASH ROAD

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

County:
Derbyshire
District:
South Derbyshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Elvaston
National Grid Reference:
SK4114532791

Details

SK 43 SW
2/33

PARISH OF ELVASTON
BORROWASH ROAD
(West Side)
Nursery Garden Walls and Attached Outbuildings at Elvaston Castle

GV
II

Kitchen garden walls and attached outbuildings. Late C18 and
mid C19. Built for the Earl of Harrington. Red brick with
brick and stone dressings, and slate roofs to outbuildings. Two
large rectangles of walls, both approximately 12 feet high with
late C18 walls to east plus outbuildings attached to north wall,
and mid C19 walls to west. Mid C19 walls are partly of metric
sized bricks and are hollow to allow hot air to be pumped
through. West wall has a C20 opening with wrought iron gates.
C18 walls have flat stone copings. The outbuildings to north
have a two storey part to east, with central panelled door below
plain stone lintel and a 2-light window below similar lintel to
east, plus canted bay window to west. Above there are three
2-light horizontal sliding glazing bar sashes below segment
heads. Central part is single storey with plank doors and
lapped glass windows below plain stone lintels and to west there
is a tall tower-like structure with single pitched roof, also
with lapped glass window and plank door.

Listing NGR: SK4114532791

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Legacy System number:
83019
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

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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.

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