Garden Walls, Gateway and Terrace Balustrade Immediately to North of Cranborne Manor House
GARDEN WALLS, GATEWAY AND TERRACE BALUSTRADE IMMEDIATELY TO NORTH OF CRANBORNE MANOR HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120173
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Garden Walls, Gateway and Terrace Balustrade Immediately to North of Cranborne Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- GARDEN WALLS, GATEWAY AND TERRACE BALUSTRADE IMMEDIATELY TO NORTH OF CRANBORNE MANOR HOUSE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/06369/02
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120173
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Garden Walls, Gateway and Terrace Balustrade Immediately to North of Cranborne Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- GARDEN WALLS, GATEWAY AND TERRACE BALUSTRADE IMMEDIATELY TO NORTH OF CRANBORNE MANOR HOUSE
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:
- GARDEN WALLS, GATEWAY AND TERRACE BALUSTRADE IMMEDIATELY TO NORTH OF CRANBORNE MANOR HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cranborne
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 05312 13281
Details
CRANBORNE SU 0513
11/4 Garden walls, gateway and terrace balustrade 18.3.55 immediately to north of Cranborne Manor House GV II
Walls, gateway and terrace balustrade. Walls probably early C17, gateway C18 and terrace balustrade of 1610, remade 1647. Walls of flint and rubble with weathered stone coping. Gatepiers of rusticated ashlar with moulded caps and ball finials. Terrace balustrade of stone with symmetrical turned stone balusters; approached up a short flight of steps. The original gateway and terrace were reputedly broken by Parliamentary troops in 1643. (RCHM, Dorset, vol. V, p.10, no.4.)
Listing NGR: SU0530713283
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 107341
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1975), 10
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 12 Dorset,
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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