Parterre to West of Bramham Park House With 2 Pillars and 6 Urns
PARTERRE TO WEST OF BRAMHAM PARK HOUSE WITH 2 PILLARS AND 6 URNS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1135639
- Date first listed:
- 03-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Parterre to West of Bramham Park House With 2 Pillars and 6 Urns
- Statutory Address:
- PARTERRE TO WEST OF BRAMHAM PARK HOUSE WITH 2 PILLARS AND 6 URNS
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1135639
- Date first listed:
- 03-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Parterre to West of Bramham Park House With 2 Pillars and 6 Urns
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARTERRE TO WEST OF BRAMHAM PARK HOUSE WITH 2 PILLARS AND 6 URNS
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:
- PARTERRE TO WEST OF BRAMHAM PARK HOUSE WITH 2 PILLARS AND 6 URNS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Bramham cum Oglethorpe
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 40786 41711
Details
BRAMHAM CUM OGLETHORPE BRAMHAM PARK SE4041 LS23 7/30 Parterre to west of Bramham Park house, with 2 pillars and 6 urns.
GV I
Parterre with 2 carved pillars and 6 urns. Early C18. Magnesian limestone. Rectangular, approx. 70 metres x 35 metres, set in ground rising gradually away from the house, the longer side walls gently raked upwards to the further end, which contains a wide bow with a fountain in the centre. The side and end walls have a plinth and vermiculated raised panels, the end wall has a coved niche in each of the straight outer sections, a rusticated pilaster at each end of the bow, a dragon's mouth spout over a rocky cascade in the centre, and its coping carries 6 fluted urns with carved ramshead handles. The inner end of each side wall is marked by a large heavily-carved pillar, approx. one metre square and 4 metres high, composed of a pedestal with a vermiculated panel on each side, carrying a short pillar clasped between 5-fingered volutes, with prominent moulded entablature crowned with a swan-neck pediment. Possibly by John Wood of Bath (Shown on survey of gardens by Detmar Blow, c.1907, as "sundial garden").
Listing NGR: SE4078641711
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 342191
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 45 West Yorkshire,
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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