Pound at South End of Common

POUND AT SOUTH END OF COMMON

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1262594
Date first listed:
16-Mar-1993
List Entry Name:
Pound at South End of Common
Statutory Address:
POUND AT SOUTH END OF COMMON

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1262594
Date first listed:
16-Mar-1993
List Entry Name:
Pound at South End of Common
Statutory Address 1:
POUND AT SOUTH END OF COMMON

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
POUND AT SOUTH END OF COMMON

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

County:
Warwickshire
District:
North Warwickshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Bentley
National Grid Reference:
SP 28435 95998

Details

The following Building shall be added:-

BENTLEY BENTLEY COMMON SP 29 NE 1/10003 Pound at south end of common - II Pound. Dated 1846. Sandstone rubble with dressed quoins and rubble coping. Walls are about 2 metres tall and enclose a pound of about 6 metres square. Wide opening on SE side with wooden gate-posts. A section of the wall at the west corner has fallen down. One of the stones near the top of the NE wall is roughly inscribed:- 'BILT 1846' and either 'MINE' or 'MINER'. It is said that the pound might have been rebuilt by miners froma coal mine at Baxterley, about half a mile away. The mine owners were the Dugdales of Merevale Hall, whose estate included Bentley.

Listing NGR: SP2843595998

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Legacy System number:
434599
Legacy System:
LBS

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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.

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