East and West Corner Gazebos and Linking North Boundary Wall of Formal Garden at Barrow Court
EAST AND WEST CORNER GAZEBOS AND LINKING NORTH BOUNDARY WALL OF FORMAL GARDEN AT BARROW COURT, BARROW COURT LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1129169
- Date first listed:
- 31-Mar-1978
- List Entry Name:
- East and West Corner Gazebos and Linking North Boundary Wall of Formal Garden at Barrow Court
- Statutory Address:
- EAST AND WEST CORNER GAZEBOS AND LINKING NORTH BOUNDARY WALL OF FORMAL GARDEN AT BARROW COURT, BARROW COURT LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1129169
- Date first listed:
- 31-Mar-1978
- List Entry Name:
- East and West Corner Gazebos and Linking North Boundary Wall of Formal Garden at Barrow Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- EAST AND WEST CORNER GAZEBOS AND LINKING NORTH BOUNDARY WALL OF FORMAL GARDEN AT BARROW COURT, BARROW COURT LANE
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:
- EAST AND WEST CORNER GAZEBOS AND LINKING NORTH BOUNDARY WALL OF FORMAL GARDEN AT BARROW COURT, BARROW COURT LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Barrow Gurney
- National Grid Reference:
- ST5155968496
Details
ST 56 NW
3/9
31.3.78
BARROW GURNEY C.P.
BARROW COURT LANE (west side)
East and west corner Gazebos and linking north Boundary Wall of formal garden at Barrow Court
G.V.
II*
2 Gazebos and balustraded Garden Wall. Circa 1890 by F. Inigo Thomas. Rubble
to Gazebo bases, either side of central arch and flanking curved walls, ashlar
to piers, architectural features of Gazebos and Boundary Wall, stone slates to
Gazebo roofs. Each Gazebo has a Venetian loggia on its south facade with
ornamental keystone and further arched openings with curving steps up to each side
giving access to a wooden settle-type seat. The ramped rear walls have piers
with ball finials at either end; the Gazebos have egg and foliage friezes and
pyramidal roofs with apex ball finials. The Boundary Wall is balustraded with
ball finial piers at regular intervals and in the centre 2 tall Gatepiers with
ball finials and low wooden 2-leaf gates. 2 sections of balustrading to the east
have (September 1985) been breached and the balusters lie in heaps in the east
Gazebo. These architectural features together with several others comprise a
fine formal garden layout designed by Thomas for Henry Martin Gibbs; it is
included in the Historic Gardens Register : Part 1 Avon. (Country Life,
18 January 1902, R. Cooke, West Country Houses, 1957).
Listing NGR: ST5155968496
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 33877
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cooke, R, West Country Houses, (1957)
Country Life in 18 January, (1902)
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.
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