SUMMERHOUSE AND GARDEN WALL TO NUMBER 1

SUMMERHOUSE AND GARDEN WALL TO NUMBER 1, PARK LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1196233
Date first listed:: 31-Oct-1994
List Entry Name:: SUMMERHOUSE AND GARDEN WALL TO NUMBER 1
Statutory Address:: SUMMERHOUSE AND GARDEN WALL TO NUMBER 1, PARK LANE

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Date:: 2002-09-29
Reference:: IOE01/08428/35
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1196233
Date first listed:: 31-Oct-1994
List Entry Name:: SUMMERHOUSE AND GARDEN WALL TO NUMBER 1
Statutory Address 1:: SUMMERHOUSE AND GARDEN WALL TO NUMBER 1, PARK LANE

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:: SUMMERHOUSE AND GARDEN WALL TO NUMBER 1, PARK LANE

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

County:: Essex
District:: Uttlesford (District Authority)
Parish:: Saffron Walden
National Grid Reference:: TL 53646 38387

Details

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 PARK LANE 669-1/1/316 (South side) Summerhouse and garden wall to No.1

GV II

Summerhouse approx 22m S of No.1 (qv). 1834. Red brick, roof now felt, originally lead?. Circular plan approx 3.6m diameter, in `Gothick' style. Single storey approx 3.5m high. N elevation to garden, central 4-centred arch headed doorway, 2-leaf compassed door with upper glazing, margin glazing bars with some decorative stained glass panes, inner 2x4 panes, lower panel to each leaf. Fixed lancet window each side with `Y' tracery glazing bars, 2x3 panes below, apex pane of decorative stained glass. Splayed stone sills. Parapet to roof has deep corniced coping and lower moulded cornice (all in brick). Between, parapet pierced by continuous band of round holes made from terracotta half round sections (field drains?), lower spout on E side, also double buttress on W side where building meets garden wall, buttress also with brick cornice moulding. INTERIOR: rendered, plain. 3 graffiti on brickwork, initials all ending with TI and all dated 1834, probably the initials of the younger members of the family done at the time of construction. GARDEN WALL each side attached to back, red brick, approx 2.5m high, upper 0.5m later addition. Extends approx 10.5m to E approx 6.5m to W, then turning N towards house for approx 22m.

Listing NGR: TL5364838388

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Legacy System number:: 370705
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.