Terraces, Gates and Loggia in Italian Garden at Dropmore
TERRACES, GATES AND LOGGIA IN ITALIAN GARDEN AT DROPMORE, HEATHFIELD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1125055
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Terraces, Gates and Loggia in Italian Garden at Dropmore
- Statutory Address:
- TERRACES, GATES AND LOGGIA IN ITALIAN GARDEN AT DROPMORE, HEATHFIELD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1125055
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Terraces, Gates and Loggia in Italian Garden at Dropmore
- Statutory Address 1:
- TERRACES, GATES AND LOGGIA IN ITALIAN GARDEN AT DROPMORE, HEATHFIELD ROAD
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:
- TERRACES, GATES AND LOGGIA IN ITALIAN GARDEN AT DROPMORE, HEATHFIELD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Taplow
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 92468 86139
Details
SU 98 NW TAPLOW HEATHFIELD ROAD
3/687 Terraces, gates and loggia in Italian Garden at - Dropmore
- II
C19. Across the front of the garden, a stone balustrade with central opening; 4 stone piers with a vase on each end pier. Through the opening, a path flanked by hedges and leading to a flight of stone steps with flanking walls with pierced balustrade. Left and right a terrace. It terminates, on the left, with the entrance to the Pinetum and, on the right, with a loggia. Entrance with square cement-rendered gate piers with inset panels on sides and moulded caps. Fine C18 wrought iron gates from Huntercombe Manor; wrought iron side railings. Loggia C19 and raised on steps whose flanking walls terminate in pedestals with urns. Cement-rendered. Three bays wide; one bay deep. Facade with 3 arches divided from each other by marble Tuscan columns broken forward and carrying their own pieces of entablature. Flat roof with balustraded parapet. Side openings with Serlian motif, the central arched opening standing on marble barley-sugar columns. On the terrace and in axis with the flight of steps, another flight, double and leading to a pond whose wall is decorated with 7 stone cupids in various poses. Behind the pond, a back wall with inset carved marble panels.
Listing NGR: SU9246886139
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 44292
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 4 Buckinghamshire,
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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