Orangery with front terrace and wall with sphinxes at Trent Park
Trent Park, Cockfosters, Barnet, EN4 0PS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1260709
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Orangery with front terrace and wall with sphinxes at Trent Park
- Statutory Address:
- Trent Park, Cockfosters, Barnet, EN4 0PS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1260709
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Orangery with front terrace and wall with sphinxes at Trent Park
- Statutory Address 1:
- Trent Park, Cockfosters, Barnet, EN4 0PS
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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.
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:
- Trent Park, Cockfosters, Barnet, EN4 0PS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Enfield (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ2917797341
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 22/07/2020
TQ 29 NE
19/132
COCKFOSTERS ROAD
Trent Park
Orangery with front terrace and wall with sphinxes at Trent Park
(Formerly listed as Orangery with front terrace and wall with sphinxes at Trent Park, BRAMLEY ROAD (north side, off))
GV
II
Orangery, now part of music school. Circa 1930 by Col R Cooper for Sir Philip Sassoon, incorporating early C18 sculpture from Wrest Park, Beds. Red brick in Flemish bond with stone dressings and sculpture; sphinxes of Coade stone; flat roof concealed by parapet. One storey. Five bays, the end bays canted. Each bay, and the returned end bays, has a round-arched small-pane French window below fanlight with radial glazing bars. Band below coped parapet which supports three sculptures (at centre and ends) each comprising a garlanded urn flanked by cherubs. In front of Orangery is terrace approached up four shallow steps to each side of which are low brick walls which return to the organgery as quadrants; next to the steps they terminate in plinths which have Coade stone roundels of the seasons and support sphinxes, one of which is dated 1787.
Late C20 music school addition to rear of orangery is not of special interest. Orangery listed principally because of interest of the C18 sculptures.
Listing NGR: TQ2917797341
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 200843
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 17 Greater London
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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