GATE PIERS AND ATTCHED HA HA WALL ENCLOSING COBBLED TERRACE IN FRONT OF THE CITADEL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1237123
Date first listed:: 16-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: GATE PIERS AND ATTCHED HA HA WALL ENCLOSING COBBLED TERRACE IN FRONT OF THE CITADEL
Statutory Address:: GATE PIERS AND ATTCHED HA HA WALL ENCLOSING COBBLED TERRACE IN FRONT OF THE CITADEL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1237123
Date first listed:: 16-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: GATE PIERS AND ATTCHED HA HA WALL ENCLOSING COBBLED TERRACE IN FRONT OF THE CITADEL
Statutory Address 1:: GATE PIERS AND ATTCHED HA HA WALL ENCLOSING COBBLED TERRACE IN FRONT OF THE CITADEL

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:: GATE PIERS AND ATTCHED HA HA WALL ENCLOSING COBBLED TERRACE IN FRONT OF THE CITADEL

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

District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Weston-under-Redcastle
National Grid Reference:: SJ5712728558

Details

WESTON-UNDER- - SJ 5628-5728 REDCASTLE C.P. 17/174 Gate piers and - attached ha-ha wall enclosing cobbled terrace in front of The Citadel GV II

Gate piers and attached ha-ha wall. Circa 1824-5 by Thomas Harrison of Chester for Sir Rowland Hill, fourth baronet of Hawkstone. Sandstone ashlar with chamfered coping to wall. Gate piers at east end of terrace both consist of 4 attached columns with moulded plinths and capping. Ha-ha wall enclosing terrace paved with large cobblestones has 4-sided bastions to angles. The architect's drawing, dated July 3, 1824, shows that the wall was originally intended to have stepped buttresses at angles. C.L. (August 21, 1958) pp.368-71.

Listing NGR: SJ5712728558

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Legacy System number:: 428336
Legacy System:: LBS

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'Country Life' in 21 August, (1958), 368-71

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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.