Walls Enclosing Melbourne Hall Gardens
WALLS ENCLOSING MELBOURNE HALL GARDENS, BLACKWELL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1096404
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Walls Enclosing Melbourne Hall Gardens
- Statutory Address:
- WALLS ENCLOSING MELBOURNE HALL GARDENS, BLACKWELL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1096404
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1971
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Walls Enclosing Melbourne Hall Gardens
- Statutory Address 1:
- WALLS ENCLOSING MELBOURNE HALL GARDENS, BLACKWELL LANE
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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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WALLS ENCLOSING MELBOURNE HALL GARDENS, BLACKWELL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- South Derbyshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Melbourne
- National Grid Reference:
- SK3914325053
Details
SK 38/3925 PARISH OF MELBOURNE BLACKWELL LANE
6/45 (South Side)
18.2.71 Walls enclosing
Melbourne Hall
Gardens (formerly
listed as 'stone rubble
boundary walls to north,
west and south-east of
Melbourne Hall Grounds')
GV II
Garden walls with gates and attached dog graves. Early and late
C18 with numerous late repairs. Erected as part of a French
style garden designed by London and Wise, Royal Gardeners to
Queen Anne, for Thomas Coke of Melbourne Hall. Stone rubble and
red brick with stone dressings. Northern section of wall
adjoining Blackwell Lane is of rubble stone with flat stone
copings and to east end there are a pair of plain stone gate
piers with pyramidal copings and ball finials, plus double plank
gates. Eastern section of wall is of red brick with vitrified
headers and is probably contemporary with the gardens. To south
and west the walls change to rubble stone and south side has one
blocked segment headed stone doorcase. In the south-east corner
there is a dogs graveyard with small stone memorial plaques,
dating from 1855 to the present day, inserted into the garden
wall. Included in the Derbyshire Historic Gardens Register at
Grade I. See item 6/63 for sources.
Listing NGR: SK3914325053
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 83031
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 10 Derbyshire,
Legal
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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