Boundary Wall, 250 Metres to North East of Priory Gardens Cottage
BOUNDARY WALL, 250 METRES TO NORTH EAST OF PRIORY GARDENS COTTAGE, BOW STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1139803
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Boundary Wall, 250 Metres to North East of Priory Gardens Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BOUNDARY WALL, 250 METRES TO NORTH EAST OF PRIORY GARDENS COTTAGE, BOW STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1139803
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1984
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Dec-2012
- List Entry Name:
- Boundary Wall, 250 Metres to North East of Priory Gardens Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOUNDARY WALL, 250 METRES TO NORTH EAST OF PRIORY GARDENS COTTAGE, BOW 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:
- BOUNDARY WALL, 250 METRES TO NORTH EAST OF PRIORY GARDENS COTTAGE, BOW STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Redcar and Cleveland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Guisborough
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ6178516014
Summary
Boundary wall, late-C17/early-C18 with C19 and early-C20 alterations.
Reasons for Designation
The late-C17/early-C18 boundary wall 250m to the north-east of Priory Gardens Cottage is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Historic: as a built element of the designed landscape at Gisborough Priory Gardens
* Group value: for its association with numerous other listed structures and the scheduled Gisborough Priory ruins, which together provide physical evidence as to the story of an historically significant site with a great time depth
* Date: for its retention of pre-1840, most probably pre-1700, fabric
History
The lands belonging to the former Priory were first leased by Thomas Chaloner in 1547, who subsequently purchased them in 1550 for £998. It was not until the death of Edward Chaloner in 1680 that the family moved to the site. Edward’s son William constructed a mansion on Bow Street, known as Old Hall, and it was at this point that the gardens were developed. The standing stonework of the Priory was incorporated into the ornamental gardens to provide a setting to the Hall. Research into the gardens has identified three main phases; 1709, 1773-1805 and 1854.
This boundary wall dates to the first phase of garden development, appearing on plans of the garden based on Kip’s 1709 engraving. By 1854, the south-west end of the wall had been altered to curve southwards; this was later truncated. The north end of the wall was also truncated through the insertion of a later boundary wall which separated it from the Priory ruins (designated Grade II as part of the boundary walls to the Priory ruins, list entry 1139767).
Details
MATERIALS: brick with flat stone copings to the east and dressed sandstone to the south.
PLAN: the eastern section runs north-south. At the southern end the wall turns west.
DESCRIPTION: there is a round-arched opening with a wood-plank door to the centre of the eastern section. The south section running east-west is topped by corrugated iron in parts and flat coping stones in others. The height drops to the west. There is an inserted doorway accessed via sunken steps, as well as an inserted opening onto a ramp with coping stones. These would have provided access to the greenhouses and the frames which were built abutting the wall’s southern face.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 59912
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gisborough Priory Project, , The Lost Gardens of Gisborough Priory, (2008)
Other
Reid Jubb Brown Partnership for Gisborough Priory Project, The Strategic and Operational Plan for the Gisborough Priory Gardens, May 2006,
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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