Barley Wood and Memorial Urns
BARLEY WOOD AND MEMORIAL URNS, LONG LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1158238
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Barley Wood and Memorial Urns
- Statutory Address:
- BARLEY WOOD AND MEMORIAL URNS, LONG LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1158238
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Barley Wood and Memorial Urns
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARLEY WOOD AND MEMORIAL URNS, LONG 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:
- BARLEY WOOD AND MEMORIAL URNS, LONG LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wrington
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 47937 63036
Details
ST 46 SE WRINGTON C.P. LONG LANE (north side)
5/152 Barley Wood and memorial Urns
II
Detached house used as offices. Original cottage orne of 1801-2 extended by Ernest George in 1900 and further extended by Chester H. Jones in 1933. Memorial urns set up in 1802 and 1805. Render with plain tile roofs. L-shaped plan of 2 storeys and attics with several canted bays. Small pane casement fenestration throughout with gabled bargeboarded dormers to roof. East entrance front has a gabled part-glazed porch with half timbering and cusped bargeboards. Round-arched conservatory on openwork piers to east and south fronts. Rendered stacks. 2 memorial urns on south terrace to the philosopher John Locke and to Bishop Beilby Porteus. Locke urn given to Hannah More by Mrs. Montagu in 1789 and moved to Barley Wood in 1802. Limestone. Square plinth with moulded base and cap, neo-classical urn with fluted neck and guilloche frieze. Porteus urn of limestone, erected 1805 by Hannah More. Square plinth moulded at base and cap with bulbous urn. The original cottage orne subsumed by later rebuilding was built for the social reformer and authoress Hannah More after her move from nearby Cowslip Green. (Unpublished history of Barley Wood commissioned by H.A.T. Group Ltd.).
Listing NGR: ST4793763036
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 34018
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
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History of Barley Wood, ()
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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