WALL TO SOUTH OF THE WOODLANDS COMBE ABBEY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1233703
Date first listed:: 24-Jul-1992
List Entry Name:: WALL TO SOUTH OF THE WOODLANDS COMBE ABBEY
Statutory Address:: WALL TO SOUTH OF THE WOODLANDS COMBE ABBEY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1233703
Date first listed:: 24-Jul-1992
List Entry Name:: WALL TO SOUTH OF THE WOODLANDS COMBE ABBEY
Statutory Address 1:: WALL TO SOUTH OF THE WOODLANDS COMBE ABBEY

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:: WALL TO SOUTH OF THE WOODLANDS COMBE ABBEY

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

County:: Warwickshire
District:: Rugby (District Authority)
Parish:: Combe Fields
National Grid Reference:: SP3894878945

Details

COMBEFIELDS COMBE ABBEY SP 37 NE 5/10005 Wall to S of The Woodlands Combe Abbey GV II Boundary wall. c1770-78, with later alterations. By Lancelot (Capability) Brown. Red brick with coping in part and remains of bases for urns. This wall extends south-east of The Woodlands (qv) to the edge of The Pool and is approx 2-3m in height but has the occasional gap or area of collapse. The wall was originally built by Brown together with that to north (qv) of The Woodlands to cut off the area of land bordering The Pool which he had formed into a Menagerie. The area is named as such and the wall is shown in a plan of 1778.

Listing NGR: SP3894878945

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Legacy System number:: 409213
Legacy System:: LBS

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 42 Warwickshire,

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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.