WALL TO NORTH OF THE WOODLANDS, COMBE ABBEY AND ATTACHED FARMBUILDINGS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1276493
Date first listed:: 24-Jul-1992
List Entry Name:: WALL TO NORTH OF THE WOODLANDS, COMBE ABBEY AND ATTACHED FARMBUILDINGS
Statutory Address:: WALL TO NORTH OF THE WOODLANDS, COMBE ABBEY AND ATTACHED FARMBUILDINGS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1276493
Date first listed:: 24-Jul-1992
Date of most recent amendment:: 22-Nov-1993
List Entry Name:: WALL TO NORTH OF THE WOODLANDS, COMBE ABBEY AND ATTACHED FARMBUILDINGS
Statutory Address 1:: WALL TO NORTH OF THE WOODLANDS, COMBE ABBEY AND ATTACHED FARMBUILDINGS

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 NORTH OF THE WOODLANDS, COMBE ABBEY AND ATTACHED FARMBUILDINGS

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:: SP3884279058

Details

SP 37 NE 5/10004

COMBEFIELDS, COMBE ABBEY Wall to North of The Woodlands, Combe Abbey and attached farmbuildings

(Formerly listed as Wall to N of The Woodlands, Combe Abbey)

GV II

Boundary wall. c1770-78, with later alterations. By Lancelot (Capability) Brown. Red brick with coping in part. This wall extends north and north-west of The Woodlands (qv) to the edge of The Pool and is approx. 3m in height but has the occasional gap or area of collapse. The wall was originally built by Brown together with that to south (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 shown in a plan of 1778. Attached to the western side of this wall a range of single storey outbuildings. Red brick with plain tile roofs and a single ridge stack. Central range has to right 2 doorways with plank doors flanked by single 2-light glazing bar casements. Set back to right a remodelled C19 wing. Set back to left an original wing with 2 plank doors and two 2-light casements. These buildings were built to serve the Menagerie, to provide feed storage and winter quarters for the exotic animals kept here.

Listing NGR: SP3884279058

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Legacy System number:: 409212
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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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.