WALL OF CASCADE APPROXIMATELY 50 METRES NORTH OF EBBERSTON HALL

WALL OF CASCADE APPROXIMATELY 50 METRES NORTH OF EBBERSTON HALL, A170

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1206196
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:: WALL OF CASCADE APPROXIMATELY 50 METRES NORTH OF EBBERSTON HALL
Statutory Address:: WALL OF CASCADE APPROXIMATELY 50 METRES NORTH OF EBBERSTON HALL, A170

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1206196
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:: WALL OF CASCADE APPROXIMATELY 50 METRES NORTH OF EBBERSTON HALL
Statutory Address 1:: WALL OF CASCADE APPROXIMATELY 50 METRES NORTH OF EBBERSTON HALL, A170

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:: WALL OF CASCADE APPROXIMATELY 50 METRES NORTH OF EBBERSTON HALL, A170

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

District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Ebberston and Yedingham
National Grid Reference:: SE 89249 83479

Details

SE 88 SE 10/15

EBBERSTON A 170 (north side,off) Wall of cascade approximately 50 metres north of Ebberston Hall

GV II *

Lowest cascade of water garden. c1718. For William Thompson, MP for Scarborough. Dressed limestone. Stepped wall with offsets approximately 1.75 metres high and 10 metres wide forming a dam to the canal behind it. Central part channelled. Attached decorative urns to left and right. C Hussey, English Gardens and Landscapes 1700-1750, 1967; Harris J, Artist and the Country House, 1979. Ebberston Hall gardens are listed grade II* in the Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England.

Listing NGR: SE8924983479

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 329634
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Harris, J , Artist and the Country House, (1979)
Hussey, C, English Gardens and Landscapes 1700-1750, (1967)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 32 North Yorkshire,

Legal

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