Garden Walls, Attached Outbuildings, Greenhouse and Pillars, West of Blagdon Hall

GARDEN WALLS, ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS, GREENHOUSE AND PILLARS, WEST OF BLAGDON HALL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1206715
Date first listed:
29-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:
Garden Walls, Attached Outbuildings, Greenhouse and Pillars, West of Blagdon Hall
Statutory Address:
GARDEN WALLS, ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS, GREENHOUSE AND PILLARS, WEST OF BLAGDON HALL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1206715
Date first listed:
29-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:
Garden Walls, Attached Outbuildings, Greenhouse and Pillars, West of Blagdon Hall
Statutory Address 1:
GARDEN WALLS, ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS, GREENHOUSE AND PILLARS, WEST OF BLAGDON HALL

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
GARDEN WALLS, ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS, GREENHOUSE AND PILLARS, WEST OF BLAGDON HALL

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

District:
Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Stannington
National Grid Reference:
NZ 21197 77082

Details

STANNINGTON BLAGDON NZ 2177 13/70 Garden walls, attached outbuildings, greenhouse and pillars, west of Blagdon Hall GV II Garden walls, outbuildings, greenhouse and supporting pillars for roses. Late C18 or early C19 with alterations under Sir Edwin Lutyens' garden scheme, 1926- 1938. Walls and outbuildings brick in English Garden Wall Bond 1 and 4, with stone dressings and Lakeland slate roofs; greenhouse glass, wood and cast iron on ashlar base; pillars brick. Rectangular walled garden with short diagonal wing walls at southern angles, ending in square piers; south-eastern links to pond surround (q.v.). Wall with flat stone coping; both coping and coursing sloped down steeply on either side of lower central section on south. Coping ramped up on either side of gateway on east, with elaborate wrought-iron gate between piers with foliate ball finials. Boarded door on north in alternating- block surround. Greenhouse against inner face of wall to west of door has patterned spandrel brackets and ornate wrought-iron ridge finials. Pent outbuildings, against outer face of wall east of door, have boarded doors, 16-pane sash windows and 2 segmental arches.

Cruciform-plan paths within garden lined (except in north-east quarter) by pillars with dog-tooth friezes and stepped caps; these were formerly linked by wood rails which supported climbing roses.

Altered greenhouses and house at north-west corner are not of special interest.

Listing NGR: NZ2119777082

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
238980
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 31 Northumberland,

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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