Doric Screen Garden Walls Terrace and Parterre Curb North of Bishton Hall
DORIC SCREEN GARDEN WALLS TERRACE AND PARTERRE CURB NORTH OF BISHTON HALL, BELLAMOUR LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1273003
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Doric Screen Garden Walls Terrace and Parterre Curb North of Bishton Hall
- Statutory Address:
- DORIC SCREEN GARDEN WALLS TERRACE AND PARTERRE CURB NORTH OF BISHTON HALL, BELLAMOUR LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1273003
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Doric Screen Garden Walls Terrace and Parterre Curb North of Bishton Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- DORIC SCREEN GARDEN WALLS TERRACE AND PARTERRE CURB NORTH OF BISHTON HALL, BELLAMOUR 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:
- DORIC SCREEN GARDEN WALLS TERRACE AND PARTERRE CURB NORTH OF BISHTON HALL, BELLAMOUR LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Stafford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Colwich
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 02374 20865
Details
COLWICH BELLAMOUR LANE, Bishton SK 02 SW 603-0/2/10019 Doric Screen, garden walls, terrace and parterre curb north of Bishton Hall GV II*
Garden screen, terrace, walls and parterre. Circa 1840's. Architect not known. Pink sandstone ashlar. Comprising a screen on the north side with a summerhouse at the centre, in the form ofa Greek Doric hexastyle apteral temple, and flanking porticos, distyle in antis; in front of the screen there is a terrace with vases and steps down to a formal garden with low boundary walls and an elaborately shaped parterre at the centre with large moulded curb stones. The parterre has been converted to a fish pond. The summerhouse is a finely detailed Greek Doric temple; inside it is semi-circular and ashlar lined with pilastered walls with niches and a stone bench. Note: The screen might have been built to screen the gardens from the nearby Trent Valley Railway Line, which was built in 1845-7.
Listing NGR: SK0237420865
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 446850
- 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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