TERRACE WALLS AND STEPS BELOW BAWDSEY MANOR

TERRACE WALLS AND STEPS BELOW BAWDSEY MANOR, (OFF) FERRY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1183168
Date first listed:: 31-Aug-1988
List Entry Name:: TERRACE WALLS AND STEPS BELOW BAWDSEY MANOR
Statutory Address:: TERRACE WALLS AND STEPS BELOW BAWDSEY MANOR, (OFF) FERRY ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1183168
Date first listed:: 31-Aug-1988
List Entry Name:: TERRACE WALLS AND STEPS BELOW BAWDSEY MANOR
Statutory Address 1:: TERRACE WALLS AND STEPS BELOW BAWDSEY MANOR, (OFF) FERRY ROAD

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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Location

Statutory Address:: TERRACE WALLS AND STEPS BELOW BAWDSEY MANOR, (OFF) FERRY ROAD

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

County:: Suffolk
District:: East Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Bawdsey
National Grid Reference:: TM 33492 37782

Details

BAWDSEY (Off) FERRY ROAD TM 33 NW (South end) 12/15 Terrace walls and Steps below Bawdsey Manor G.V. II Three terrace retaining walls and flights of steps connecting the levels. c. 1900. Red brick with ashlar dressings. Lowest wall of c. 3 feet in height and two upper walls of c. 8 feet high, connected by Imperial staircase rising from two lower flights to a landing over a seating recess and then rising as a single flight. All the walls have ashlar coping and regularly placed pilaster buttresses with flat ashlar caps. the staircase has ashlar treads, square piers with flat ashlar caps and open ashlar panels of strapwork to the balustrade. It rises by two lower flights of 11 steps to quarter-landings then by a further two flights of 10 steps to meet at the landing above the loggia which has a 4-centred archway of moulded brick. Above this is a flight of 3 steps leading to the level of the lower terrace. Nine further steps lead up to the level of the upper terrace.

Listing NGR: TM3349237782

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Legacy System:: LBS

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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.