BALUSTRADED UPPER TERRACE TO WEST OF CONDOVER HALL WITH URNS, BASTION GARDEN HOUSE AND 2 FLIGHTS OF STEPS TO LOWER TERRACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1175852
Date first listed:: 10-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:: BALUSTRADED UPPER TERRACE TO WEST OF CONDOVER HALL WITH URNS, BASTION GARDEN HOUSE AND 2 FLIGHTS OF STEPS TO LOWER TERRACE
Statutory Address:: BALUSTRADED UPPER TERRACE TO WEST OF CONDOVER HALL WITH URNS, BASTION GARDEN HOUSE AND 2 FLIGHTS OF STEPS TO LOWER TERRACE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1175852
Date first listed:: 10-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:: BALUSTRADED UPPER TERRACE TO WEST OF CONDOVER HALL WITH URNS, BASTION GARDEN HOUSE AND 2 FLIGHTS OF STEPS TO LOWER TERRACE
Statutory Address 1:: BALUSTRADED UPPER TERRACE TO WEST OF CONDOVER HALL WITH URNS, BASTION GARDEN HOUSE AND 2 FLIGHTS OF STEPS TO LOWER TERRACE

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

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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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Location

Statutory Address:: BALUSTRADED UPPER TERRACE TO WEST OF CONDOVER HALL WITH URNS, BASTION GARDEN HOUSE AND 2 FLIGHTS OF STEPS TO LOWER TERRACE

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District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Condover
National Grid Reference:: SJ 49472 05664

Details

SJ 40 NE CONDOVER C.P. CONDOVER

5/85 Balustraded upper terrace - to west of Condover Hall with urns, bastion garden house and 2 flights of steps to lower terrace.

GV II

Balustraded west terrace. Probably early C17. Sandstone ashlar. Approximately 150m in length. Open balustrade with square balusters and rectangular piers flanked by round-arched openings and C-shaped brackets; piers surmounted by C19 terracotta urns decorated with grotesque heads, and floral motifs. 2 flights of steps at north end approach lower terrace (q.v.). Square bastion at south end with splayed corner buttresses covers rib- vaulted tunnel with round-arched 4-bay arcades to either side, serving as garden house.

Listing NGR: SJ4947205664

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 35 Shropshire,

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