GARDEN STRUCTURES INCLUDING TERRACES, BALUSTRADES, URNS AND STATUES TO FRONT GARDEN TO CASTLE HILL HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1161431
Date first listed:: 20-Feb-1967
List Entry Name:: GARDEN STRUCTURES INCLUDING TERRACES, BALUSTRADES, URNS AND STATUES TO FRONT GARDEN TO CASTLE HILL HOUSE
Statutory Address:: GARDEN STRUCTURES INCLUDING TERRACES, BALUSTRADES, URNS AND STATUES TO FRONT GARDEN TO CASTLE HILL HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1161431
Date first listed:: 20-Feb-1967
List Entry Name:: GARDEN STRUCTURES INCLUDING TERRACES, BALUSTRADES, URNS AND STATUES TO FRONT GARDEN TO CASTLE HILL HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: GARDEN STRUCTURES INCLUDING TERRACES, BALUSTRADES, URNS AND STATUES TO FRONT GARDEN TO CASTLE HILL HOUSE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: GARDEN STRUCTURES INCLUDING TERRACES, BALUSTRADES, URNS AND STATUES TO FRONT GARDEN TO CASTLE HILL HOUSE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: North Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Filleigh
National Grid Reference:: SS 67047 28345

Details

FILLEIGH CASTLE HILL SS 62 NE 5/32 Garden structures including - terraces, balustrades, urns and 20.2.67 statues to front garden to Castle Hill House II GV Garden structures including terraces, balustrades, urns and statues. Principally C18, conforming largely to part of Matthew, 2nd Lord Fortescue's landscape design, with some C19 and C20 alterations. Principal terrace stretching entire length of facade and projecting forward in conformity with the central range. Balustrade, mainly recast in concrete with urns to principal uprights and 2 lions couchant cast in lead on ashlar plinths to centre. Free-standing urn to centre of terrace with sculptured drum depicting classical scene and inscription on plinth "This vase was given by Peter Lord King to Hugh Earl Fortescue MDCCCXXXI". Symmetrical disposition of statuary furniture to grass terrace in front sloping down to raised parapetted terrace. 2 pairs of female Egyptian sphinxes to centre, the upper pair flanked by figure statues, the lower pair by 3 large stone urns on each side angled outwards towards the terminating walls of the walkway which are also flanked by similar urns. The front retaining parapet wall, of stone rubble and brick above, rendered with sunken panels, breaks forward at each end and to the centre, with urns at the angles of each break, all cast in lead except to the front of the central break, which are of stone. Baluster sundial to central break.

Listing NGR: SS6704728345

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 98947
Legacy System:: LBS

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 11 Devon,

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.