Screen Wall, and Attached Garden Feature and Wall Adjoining Gatehouse West of Arbury Hall

SCREEN WALL, AND ATTACHED GARDEN FEATURE AND WALL ADJOINING GATEHOUSE WEST OF ARBURY HALL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1185306
Date first listed:
11-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:
Screen Wall, and Attached Garden Feature and Wall Adjoining Gatehouse West of Arbury Hall
Statutory Address:
SCREEN WALL, AND ATTACHED GARDEN FEATURE AND WALL ADJOINING GATEHOUSE WEST OF ARBURY HALL
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1185306
Date first listed:
11-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:
Screen Wall, and Attached Garden Feature and Wall Adjoining Gatehouse West of Arbury Hall
Statutory Address 1:
SCREEN WALL, AND ATTACHED GARDEN FEATURE AND WALL ADJOINING GATEHOUSE WEST OF ARBURY HALL

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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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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
SCREEN WALL, AND ATTACHED GARDEN FEATURE AND WALL ADJOINING GATEHOUSE WEST OF ARBURY HALL

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

County:
Warwickshire
District:
Nuneaton and Bedworth (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SP 33471 89242

Details

NUNEATON AND BEDWORTH ARBURY PARK SP38NW 4/9 Screen wall, and attached garden feature and wall adjoining gatehouse W of Arbury Hall GV II

Screen wall, attached garden feature and wall. Screen wall is possibly C17 with late C18/early C19 alterations. Brick with some stone dressings. Rusticated alternating quoins to lower part. Stone-coped embattled parapet. Moulded cornice forms string course to raised end sections with more elaborate cornice and larger battlements. Interior not inspected. Garden feature is composed of 2 re-erected Elizabethan bay windows, probably from Arbury Hall, with an arched seat between. Sandstone. Large 5-light avolo-aoulded mullioned and transomed windows, now blocked, with 2 tiers of Tuscan pilasters to angles, moulded cornice and ornamented frieze. Dentil cornice and entablature, decorated frieze. and strongly moulded cornice. Seat has lower moulded Tudor arch with moulded spandrels, cornice and entablature, and wooden bench seat. Set back on right is a lower section of wall adjoining gatehouse. C17/C18. Front of brick, with return section of sandstone ashlar. Front has blocked segmental-arched doorway, with another inserted below and to left. 3 small shaped openings above. Top has vents. Jacobean openwork stone balustrade on top, re-used from elsewhere in the garden. (Buildings of England: Warwickshire, p71)

Listing NGR: SP3347189242

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

Legacy System number:
308547
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 71

Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 42 Warwickshire,

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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