WALLED GARDEN APPROXIMATELY 75 METRES WEST OF HOUSE AT POLESDEN LACEY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1188887
Date first listed:: 24-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:: WALLED GARDEN APPROXIMATELY 75 METRES WEST OF HOUSE AT POLESDEN LACEY
Statutory Address:: WALLED GARDEN APPROXIMATELY 75 METRES WEST OF HOUSE AT POLESDEN LACEY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1188887
Date first listed:: 24-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:: WALLED GARDEN APPROXIMATELY 75 METRES WEST OF HOUSE AT POLESDEN LACEY
Statutory Address 1:: WALLED GARDEN APPROXIMATELY 75 METRES WEST OF HOUSE AT POLESDEN LACEY

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:: WALLED GARDEN APPROXIMATELY 75 METRES WEST OF HOUSE AT POLESDEN LACEY

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

County:: Surrey
District:: Mole Valley (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 13425 52214

Details

GREAT BOOKHAM TQ 15 SW

5/62 Walled garden approx 75 metres west of house at Polesden Lacey

GV II

Walled garden. Probably C19. Red brick in Flemish bond, with rendered coping. Rectangular plan approximately 70 x 40 metres on east-west axis. The wall on the north side, formerly the rear wall of greenhouses, is approximately 4 metres high and has a central entrance through the base of a square 2-stage water tower which has corner pilasters and round-headed doorway with tile voussoirs; the other walls are approximately 3 metres high, each ramped down in the centre to a gateway with square piers surmounted by urns, and ornamental wrought-iron gates. The south wall also has similar intermediate piers, and a westward continuation approxi- mately 40 metres long, its north face of flint with brick bands (and furnished with ledges and holes for rock plants), a central gateway like the others, and a circular "window" in the centre of each side length.

Listing NGR: TQ1342552214

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 40 Surrey,

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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.