Garden Wall and Gateway to the Grove
GARDEN WALL AND GATEWAY TO THE GROVE, RAX LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1216657
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Garden Wall and Gateway to the Grove
- Statutory Address:
- GARDEN WALL AND GATEWAY TO THE GROVE, RAX LANE
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- Date:
- 2002-01-11
- Reference:
- IOE01/05621/11
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1216657
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Garden Wall and Gateway to the Grove
- Statutory Address 1:
- GARDEN WALL AND GATEWAY TO THE GROVE, RAX LANE
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- GARDEN WALL AND GATEWAY TO THE GROVE, RAX LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bridport
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 46633 93029
Details
1. 5l91 RAX LANE (North Side)
Garden wall and gateway to The Grove SY 4693 2/358 30.10.74
II GV
2. C18 wall: hammer dressed stone plinth, then part red brick, and part yellow brick, with ashlar coping, ramped at west side. Early C19 gate piers: Portland ashlar with moulded caps and recessed panels.
Rax, Garden wall to Rax, The Grove, Garden wall to the Grove, No 32 and its outhouses, Gatehouse of No 32 and its wall, Outhouses to the south of Wykes Court Garden (all on north side), Nos 13, 15, 19 and 31 (on south side), Nos 17 and 19 Downes Street, Wykes Court, Conservative Club and Stables south of Conservative Club, North Street, all form a group.
Listing NGR: SY4664893026
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 401835
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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