Garden Feature at South End of South Terrace of Prideaux Place

GARDEN FEATURE AT SOUTH END OF SOUTH TERRACE OF PRIDEAUX PLACE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1212203
Date first listed:
20-May-1988
List Entry Name:
Garden Feature at South End of South Terrace of Prideaux Place
Statutory Address:
GARDEN FEATURE AT SOUTH END OF SOUTH TERRACE OF PRIDEAUX PLACE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1212203
Date first listed:
20-May-1988
List Entry Name:
Garden Feature at South End of South Terrace of Prideaux Place
Statutory Address 1:
GARDEN FEATURE AT SOUTH END OF SOUTH TERRACE OF PRIDEAUX PLACE

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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 FEATURE AT SOUTH END OF SOUTH TERRACE OF PRIDEAUX PLACE

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

District:
Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Padstow
National Grid Reference:
SW 91390 75453

Details

PADSTOW PRIDEAUX PLACE, Padstow SW 9075-9175 8/135 Garden feature at south end of south terrace of Prideaux Place

GV II*

Garden seat at south end of terrace. 1740 (datestone). By Edmund Prideaux. Vermiculated and dressed stone ashlar with side walls of rendered brick. Central garden seat is like a portal flanked by low quadrant walls terminating in square-on-plan piers. Situated at the south end of a terrace. The garden seat is in the form of a portal with a vermiculated round arch, imposts, keyblocks and moulded cornice to its pedimented top. Flanked by low quadrant walls, each with 4 shallow niches, terminating in a pair of stone rubble rendered piers which have moulded bases and caps and are surmounted by vase capped urns. Within the 'portico' is an inscription recording that the marbles, which are inscriptions and portable shrines of first century AD. were brought back from Rome by Edmund Prideaux in 1740.

Listing NGR: SW9139075453

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
396702
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 8 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly,

Legal

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

Ordnance survey map of Garden Feature at South End of South Terrace of Prideaux Place

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