Garden Walls, Gatepiers and Steps at Rear of Woodperry House
GARDEN WALLS, GATEPIERS AND STEPS AT REAR OF WOODPERRY HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1284452
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Garden Walls, Gatepiers and Steps at Rear of Woodperry House
- Statutory Address:
- GARDEN WALLS, GATEPIERS AND STEPS AT REAR OF WOODPERRY HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1284452
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 05-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Garden Walls, Gatepiers and Steps at Rear of Woodperry House
- Statutory Address 1:
- GARDEN WALLS, GATEPIERS AND STEPS AT REAR OF WOODPERRY HOUSE
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:
- GARDEN WALLS, GATEPIERS AND STEPS AT REAR OF WOODPERRY HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stanton St. John
- National Grid Reference:
- SP5766710481
Details
SP51SE
2/178
18/07/63
STANTON ST. JOHN
WOODPERRY
Garden walls, gatepiers and steps at rear of Woodperry House
(Formerly listed as Woodperry House with garden and entrance gates and screens)
GV
II
Garden walls, gatepiers and steps. Early/mid C18, possibly partly earlier.
Limestone rubble with some ashlar dressings. Rubble walls run from pavilions
(q.v.) to enclose the rectangular parterre, at the rear of Woodperry House
(q.v.) and extend beyond around a narrower kitchen garden at a much lower level.
The walls are heavily buttressed to north and east, where they serve as
retaining walls, reaching a height of 6m. At the north-east corner are the
remains of a 2-storey single-cell early C18 building on the exterior of the wall
in rubble with ashlar dressings, which has flat-arched openings and the remains
of cross window frames. The east wall of the parterre has central gateway
between a pair of ashlar piers with moulded cornices and ball finials. The steps
to the kitchen garden descend between ashlar walls curving inwards towards short
square piers at the bottom.
Listing NGR: SP5766710481
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 246698
- 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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