RETAINING WALL AND STEPS,60 YARDS TO SOUTH OF LEYHILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1115011
Date first listed:: 05-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:: RETAINING WALL AND STEPS,60 YARDS TO SOUTH OF LEYHILL
Statutory Address:: RETAINING WALL AND STEPS,60 YARDS TO SOUTH OF LEYHILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1115011
Date first listed:: 05-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:: RETAINING WALL AND STEPS,60 YARDS TO SOUTH OF LEYHILL
Statutory Address 1:: RETAINING WALL AND STEPS,60 YARDS TO SOUTH OF LEYHILL

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:: RETAINING WALL AND STEPS,60 YARDS TO SOUTH OF LEYHILL

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

District:: South Gloucestershire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Tortworth
National Grid Reference:: ST 69312 92439

Details

ST 69 SE TORTWORTH TORTWORTH PARK

1/140 Retaining Wall and Steps, 60 yards to south of Leyhill G.V. II

Retaining wall to terrace and central steps. Circa 1850 by S.S. Teulon; the steps are C20. Coursed rubble retaining wall approximately 6 feet high with ashlar saddleback coping. Buttresses at intervals with squat uprights, which formerly supported ball finials and which now, at the centre and the ends, carry heraldic supporters. Central flight of 10 steps with flanking walls. The wall extends the whole length of the south terrace which was formerly a formal garden. (The Builder, 19.10.1853 and 19.11.1853; Country Life, 13.5.1899).

Listing NGR: ST6931292439

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Legacy System number:: 34737
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'The Builder' in 19 November, (1853)
'Country Life' in 13 May, (1899)
'The Builder' in 29 October, (1853)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic interest in England, Part 1 Avon,

Legal

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