WALLS STEPS AND GAZEBOS TO SOUTH WEST OF FORECOURT AT HARLAXTON MANOR

WALLS STEPS AND GAZEBOS TO SOUTH WEST OF FORECOURT AT HARLAXTON MANOR, GRANTHAM ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1187969
Date first listed:: 24-Sep-1979
List Entry Name:: WALLS STEPS AND GAZEBOS TO SOUTH WEST OF FORECOURT AT HARLAXTON MANOR
Statutory Address:: WALLS STEPS AND GAZEBOS TO SOUTH WEST OF FORECOURT AT HARLAXTON MANOR, GRANTHAM ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1187969
Date first listed:: 24-Sep-1979
List Entry Name:: WALLS STEPS AND GAZEBOS TO SOUTH WEST OF FORECOURT AT HARLAXTON MANOR
Statutory Address 1:: WALLS STEPS AND GAZEBOS TO SOUTH WEST OF FORECOURT AT HARLAXTON MANOR, GRANTHAM ROAD

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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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Location

Statutory Address:: WALLS STEPS AND GAZEBOS TO SOUTH WEST OF FORECOURT AT HARLAXTON MANOR, GRANTHAM ROAD

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County:: Lincolnshire
District:: South Kesteven (District Authority)
Parish:: Harlaxton
National Grid Reference:: SK 89475 32277

Details

HARLAXTON SK8932 GRANTHAM ROAD 1315-0/15/165 (East side (off)) 24/09/79 Walls, steps and gazebos to south-west of forecourt at Harlaxton Manor I

Terrace and garden walls, steps and gazebos. c1838-1854. Probably by William Burn for Gregory Gregory. Ashlar, with sculptures in Coade stone. Renaissance Revival style. The terrace wall forming the south west side of the forecourt has a short flight of steps flanked by pedestals topped with lions, leading to a square platform with balustrade walls and strapwotk pedestals topped with urns. From the platform, a polygonal staircase rises between balustrades with strapwork pedestals and urns to a gateway with wrought-iron gates. Square gatepiers with rusticated corner pilasters, topped with figures of children and dogs. On either side, terrace wall with plain coping and intermediate pedestals with moulded flat caps topped with urns. Buttressed north west terrace wall has at each end a raised section with pilasters and volutes, then a gazebo. Blocked door to right. Square gazebos, single storey plus basement, have slated square ogee domes topped with finials. Stepped angle buttresses, cornice, corner pedestals with finials, and blind dormers with rusticated round arches and finials. On 3 sides, an unglazed 12-light cross mullioned window. On the inner side, a similar window with a doorcase set before it, with a moulded lintel, half-round pediment and 3 finials. South west side has an off-centre viewing point flanked by massive volutes, and to its left, a triple gateway with wrought-iron gates and overthrow, and square piers with cornices. South east side has a low screen wall with openings and 2 pairs of steps. Round arched blind arcade, moulded coping and pedestals with ball finials. This building appears within Harlaxton Manor Gardens which are on the Gardens Register at grade II*. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J & Antram N: Lincolnshire: London: 1964-1989: 363-367).

Listing NGR: SK8947532277

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Legacy System number:: 382972
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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 363-367
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 27 Lincolnshire,

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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.