GARDEN WALLS AND GATEWAY WITH FIG-HOUSE ATTACHED

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1121780
Date first listed:: 30-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: GARDEN WALLS AND GATEWAY WITH FIG-HOUSE ATTACHED
Statutory Address:: GARDEN WALLS AND GATEWAY WITH FIG-HOUSE ATTACHED

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1121780
Date first listed:: 30-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: GARDEN WALLS AND GATEWAY WITH FIG-HOUSE ATTACHED
Statutory Address 1:: GARDEN WALLS AND GATEWAY WITH FIG-HOUSE ATTACHED

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:: GARDEN WALLS AND GATEWAY WITH FIG-HOUSE ATTACHED

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

District:: County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Raby with Keverstone
National Grid Reference:: NZ 12871 22018

Details

RABY WITH KEVERSTONE RABY PARK NZ 1221 and NZ 1222 15/93 and 16/93 Garden walls and gateway with fig- house attached

GV II

Garden walls and gateway. Mid C18, with 1894 dated gateway transferred 1937 from Shipbourne. Walls and gateway brick,with ashlar dressings and coping; right return rubble. Brick, ashlar and glass fig-house. Serpentine front wall c.230 metres long,with central gateway and fig-house to left of gate; returns and 2 inner walls extend c.60 metres to rear, except for right return which abuts former hunting stables (q.v.), rear wall to central and right garden. Walls c.3 metres high, with flat stone coping, interrupted by central Jacobean- style gateway with ball-finialled shaped gable; coat of arms, initials EVB and date 1894 in gable. Fig-house to left of gateway has stone-coped walls supporting C19 greenhouse roof. Round-headed stone arches at right end of front wall, and in inner walls near front; segmental-headed stone arches near front of returns.

Listing NGR: NZ1287122018

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Legacy System number:: 111458
Legacy System:: LBS

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