WALLS, GATEPIERS AND STEPS DEFINING THE NORTH AND EAST SIDES OF THE TERRACED GARDENS SOUTH EAST OF THE CONSERVATORY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1286814
Date first listed:: 03-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:: WALLS, GATEPIERS AND STEPS DEFINING THE NORTH AND EAST SIDES OF THE TERRACED GARDENS SOUTH EAST OF THE CONSERVATORY
Statutory Address:: WALLS, GATEPIERS AND STEPS DEFINING THE NORTH AND EAST SIDES OF THE TERRACED GARDENS SOUTH EAST OF THE CONSERVATORY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1286814
Date first listed:: 03-Jan-1967
Date of most recent amendment:: 17-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:: WALLS, GATEPIERS AND STEPS DEFINING THE NORTH AND EAST SIDES OF THE TERRACED GARDENS SOUTH EAST OF THE CONSERVATORY
Statutory Address 1:: WALLS, GATEPIERS AND STEPS DEFINING THE NORTH AND EAST SIDES OF THE TERRACED GARDENS SOUTH EAST OF THE CONSERVATORY

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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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Statutory Address:: WALLS, GATEPIERS AND STEPS DEFINING THE NORTH AND EAST SIDES OF THE TERRACED GARDENS SOUTH EAST OF THE CONSERVATORY

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County:: Staffordshire
District:: Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
Parish:: Farley
National Grid Reference:: SK 07611 43344

Details

SK 0643-0743 FARLEY C.P. ALTON PARK

12/113 Walls, gatepiers and steps 3/1/67 defining the north and east sides of the terraced gardens south-east of The Conservatory. (Formerly listed as "Garden wall") GV II Walls, gatepiers and steps. Early C19. Ashlar with edged herringbone tooling and smooth faced ashlar coping and piers. Wall lengths of approximately 50 yards to the north and 30 yards to the east with gate piers situated to the north-east at the junction of the 2 walls and the steps to the west end of the north wall. The north wall has a lobed top with a pedestal for a former statue between each lobe. The gatepiers are of square section with panelled sides and are each surmounted by a statuette of a crouching lion. The east wall is ramped down the hillside from the southern gate pier and incorporates an oval openwork motif with tracery in the form of radiating spokes. This item forms part of the important garden layout at Alton Towers (q.v.) which is included at Grade I on the HBMC Gardens Register.

Listing NGR: SK0761143344

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Legacy System number:: 275108
Legacy System:: LBS

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 38 Staffordshire,

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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.