Deer Park Wall at Berry Pomeroy Castle

DEER PARK WALL AT BERRY POMEROY CASTLE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1108572
Date first listed:
21-May-1985
List Entry Name:
Deer Park Wall at Berry Pomeroy Castle
Statutory Address:
DEER PARK WALL AT BERRY POMEROY CASTLE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1108572
Date first listed:
21-May-1985
List Entry Name:
Deer Park Wall at Berry Pomeroy Castle
Statutory Address 1:
DEER PARK WALL AT BERRY POMEROY CASTLE

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
DEER PARK WALL AT BERRY POMEROY CASTLE

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

County:
Devon
District:
South Hams (District Authority)
Parish:
Berry Pomeroy
National Grid Reference:
SX 84134 62428

Details

SX 86 SW and SX 8261 BERRY POMEROY

5/77 and 11/77 Deer Park Wall at Berry Pomeroy Castle -

- II* Field boundary walls, formerly deer park boundary walls. Pre 1292. Coursed limestone rubble dry masonry wall capped in part with limestone slabs. Surrounds an area of about 340 acres. About three quarters of its length still exists but where it passes through woodland it has been damaged by the roots. It rises to just over two metres in its more complete sections and up to about one metre thick.

References: Ordnance Survey Antiquity No SX 86 SW - 30. Transactions of the Devonshire Association (H M Whitley) 47, 1915, pp 285-293. E P Shirley, English Deer Parks, 1867, page 92.

Listing NGR: SX8413462428

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Legacy System number:
100538
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Sources

Books and journals
Shirley, EP, Some Account of English Deer Parks, (1867), 92
Transactions of the Devonshire Association in Transactions of the Devonshire Association, Vol. 47, (1915), 285-293

Legal

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

Ordnance survey map of Deer Park Wall at Berry Pomeroy Castle

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