Attached Walls and 2 Sets of Gate-piers South-west of Waddon Manor
ATTACHED WALLS AND 2 SETS OF GATE-PIERS SOUTH-WEST OF WADDON MANOR
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1118648
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Attached Walls and 2 Sets of Gate-piers South-west of Waddon Manor
- Statutory Address:
- ATTACHED WALLS AND 2 SETS OF GATE-PIERS SOUTH-WEST OF WADDON MANOR
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1118648
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Attached Walls and 2 Sets of Gate-piers South-west of Waddon Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- ATTACHED WALLS AND 2 SETS OF GATE-PIERS SOUTH-WEST OF WADDON MANOR
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.
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:
- ATTACHED WALLS AND 2 SETS OF GATE-PIERS SOUTH-WEST OF WADDON MANOR
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Portesham
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 61972 85772
Details
SY 68 NW PORTESHAM WADDON
4/200 Attached Walls and 2 sets of Gate-Piers South-West 26.1.56 of Waddon Manor.
GV II*
Attached Walls and 2 sets of Gate-Piers in north-south axis, running for 50 metres west of Waddon Manor. Early C18. Dry dressed stone and rubble-stone walls, with moulded coping-stones. Gate-Piers, axially arranged 5 metres west of house. Inner pair: rusticated stone piers with rebates and scroll terminals. Moulded cornices with ball finials on ogival bases. Outer pair: ashlar stone piers with thin cornice- moulding and ball terminals. Seven stone steps up to it are included. This item refers to walls and gate-piers different from those mentioned above at 4/199. (RCHM Dorset II, p.243 (8)).
Listing NGR: SY6197285772
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105320
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 243
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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