RETAINING WALL, STEPS AND URNS EXTENDING APPROXIMATELY 80 METRES FROM NORTH OF EAST FRONT OF DRAYTON HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1192143
Date first listed:: 31-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:: RETAINING WALL, STEPS AND URNS EXTENDING APPROXIMATELY 80 METRES FROM NORTH OF EAST FRONT OF DRAYTON HOUSE
Statutory Address:: RETAINING WALL, STEPS AND URNS EXTENDING APPROXIMATELY 80 METRES FROM NORTH OF EAST FRONT OF DRAYTON HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1192143
Date first listed:: 31-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:: RETAINING WALL, STEPS AND URNS EXTENDING APPROXIMATELY 80 METRES FROM NORTH OF EAST FRONT OF DRAYTON HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: RETAINING WALL, STEPS AND URNS EXTENDING APPROXIMATELY 80 METRES FROM NORTH OF EAST FRONT OF DRAYTON HOUSE

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: RETAINING WALL, STEPS AND URNS EXTENDING APPROXIMATELY 80 METRES FROM NORTH OF EAST FRONT OF DRAYTON HOUSE

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

District:: North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Lowick
National Grid Reference:: SP 96318 80113

Details

SP9680 LOWICK DRAYTON PARK

12/80 Retaining wall, steps and urns extending approx. 80m. from N of E front of Drayton House

GV II

Retaining wall, steps and urns. Probably late Cl6 origins with early C18 urns probably by J. Van Nost. Squared coursed limestone wall with ashlar parapet. Flights of steps to either end of walls. Those at east end are flanked by 4, closed, lead urns. Originally probably the northern boundary of the main parterre on the east side of Drayton House (q.v.). (Gardens included in HBMCE Register of Parks and Gardens at grade I. Cornforth, J., Country Life, 20th May, 1965, p.1216; Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.189; Jackson-Stops G, Drayton House, l978).

Listing NGR: SP9631880113

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 232514
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Jackson Stops, G, Drayton House, (1978)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, (1961), 189
'Country Life' in 20 May, (1965), 1216
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 30 Northamptonshire,

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.