Rockery adjacent to Reeth Cottage
Rockery adjacent to Reeth Cottage, Main Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1131982
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Rockery adjacent to Reeth Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- Rockery adjacent to Reeth Cottage, Main Street
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/15997/26
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1131982
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Rockery adjacent to Reeth Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- Rockery adjacent to Reeth Cottage, Main Street
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:
- Rockery adjacent to Reeth Cottage, Main Street
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Aysgarth
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 00205 88387
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 5 Marh 2024 to correct a typo in the description and to reformat the text to current standards
SE 08 NW
15/100
AYSGARTH
MAIN STREET (South Side)
Rockery adjacent to Reeth Cottage
II
Rockery in walled enclosure 1906-14. By Messrs. Backhouse of York for Mr
F S Graham. Rockery of limestone blocks; enclosure wall of rubblestone with
cast-iron railings. Rockery comprises lumps of limestone placed in picturesque
mounds with narrow paths between. Enclosure approx. 14 x 42 metres, has quoins,
flat coping to return walls which ramp up hill-slope and triangular-sectioned
coping to low front wall which is broken by gate with round-topped monolithic
gate piers and is surmounted by hooped and bud-finialled railings, the gate
being similar. On right return, rockery breaks through enclosure wall. Attached
lean-to's not of special interest.
The rockery stones are reported to have been brought to this site from a field
just to the west of the village. The builders, James Backhouse and Son, were
well known rockery builders and alpine nurserymen from the late 1850s. ( The
rockery houses a large and varied collection of alpine plants which is not covered by the listing.)
Listing NGR: SE0020588387
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 323211
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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