The Conservatory and Attached Wall, Steps and Urns
THE CONSERVATORY AND ATTACHED WALL, STEPS AND URNS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1191969
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Conservatory and Attached Wall, Steps and Urns
- Statutory Address:
- THE CONSERVATORY AND ATTACHED WALL, STEPS AND URNS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1191969
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jan-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Conservatory and Attached Wall, Steps and Urns
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE CONSERVATORY AND ATTACHED WALL, STEPS AND URNS
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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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE CONSERVATORY AND ATTACHED WALL, STEPS AND URNS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Farley
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 07519 43356
Details
FARLEY C.P. ALTON PARK SK 0643-0743 12/111 The Conservatory and 3/1/67 attached wall, steps and urns. (Formerly listed as "Greenhouse") GV II*
Conservatory. Wall, steps and urns. Circa 1824. By Robert Abraham. Ashlar and cast iron. Aligned east-west facing south with circular central bay. One storey; 5 bay central block and 3-bay end blocks all with panelled pilasters and bracketed cornices, linked by set-back 8-bay loggias with fluted columns; the central bay is tripartite and bows outwards, all bays are glazed, those to the ends of each block have fanlights with radiating glazing bars; 7 glazed domes with decorative cast iron glazing bars and pineapple finials, the central dome is much larger and has a louvre. Interior: the central bay contains a circular pool. Low retaining wall attached to the left sweeping round to the front where it is terminated by a flight of stone steps flanked by cast iron urns, urns in front of each loggia and one to the right hand end of the conservatory on a stone pedestal. This item forms part of the important garden layout at Alton Towers (q.v.) which is included at Grade I on the HBMC Gardens Register. B.o.E., p. 58; Colvin, p.27.
Listing NGR: SK0751943356
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 275106
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978), 27
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 58
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 38 Staffordshire,
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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