PARTERRE RETAINING WALLS, URNS, STEPS AND POOL BASIN WITH STATUE OF DIANA TO REAR OF WOOLVERSTONE HALL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1281381
Date first listed:: 29-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:: PARTERRE RETAINING WALLS, URNS, STEPS AND POOL BASIN WITH STATUE OF DIANA TO REAR OF WOOLVERSTONE HALL
Statutory Address:: PARTERRE RETAINING WALLS, URNS, STEPS AND POOL BASIN WITH STATUE OF DIANA TO REAR OF WOOLVERSTONE HALL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1281381
Date first listed:: 29-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:: PARTERRE RETAINING WALLS, URNS, STEPS AND POOL BASIN WITH STATUE OF DIANA TO REAR OF WOOLVERSTONE HALL
Statutory Address 1:: PARTERRE RETAINING WALLS, URNS, STEPS AND POOL BASIN WITH STATUE OF DIANA TO REAR OF WOOLVERSTONE HALL

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:: PARTERRE RETAINING WALLS, URNS, STEPS AND POOL BASIN WITH STATUE OF DIANA TO REAR OF WOOLVERSTONE HALL

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

County:: Suffolk
District:: Babergh (District Authority)
Parish:: Woolverstone
National Grid Reference:: TM 19475 38695

Details

TM 1938 WOOLVERSTONE WOOLVERSTONE PARK 7/46 Parterre retaining walls, urns, steps and pool basin - with statue of Diana to rear of Woolverstone Hall GV II Steps, parterre retaining walls, urns and pool basin containing statue of Diana. 1850s by W A Nesfield for Berners family. Artificial stone. Double flight of steps to parterre retaining wall which contains a pool basin with a statue of Diana on a pedestal. Further parterre retaining walls flanking the house, cir- cular on plan with urns to centre. Forms part of garden layout designed by Nesfield and described in 1867 as 'the masterpiece of all his productions'. The layout of the parterre can still be distinguished at time of resurvey and the designs are illustrated in Gardeners Chronicle 16.2.1867 p158. Photograph in NMR.

Listing NGR: TM1947538695

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'Gardeners Chronicle' in 16 February, (1867), 158

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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.