GATE ARCH,SEAT NICHE,WALLS,BALUSTRADE AND TERRACE WALLS ATTACHED TO AND TO SOUTH EAST OF LILFORD HALL

GATE ARCH,SEAT NICHE,WALLS,BALUSTRADE AND TERRACE WALLS ATTACHED TO AND TO SOUTH EAST OF LILFORD HALL, LILFORD PARK

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1294202
Date first listed:: 11-Jan-1988
List Entry Name:: GATE ARCH,SEAT NICHE,WALLS,BALUSTRADE AND TERRACE WALLS ATTACHED TO AND TO SOUTH EAST OF LILFORD HALL
Statutory Address:: GATE ARCH,SEAT NICHE,WALLS,BALUSTRADE AND TERRACE WALLS ATTACHED TO AND TO SOUTH EAST OF LILFORD HALL, LILFORD PARK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1294202
Date first listed:: 11-Jan-1988
List Entry Name:: GATE ARCH,SEAT NICHE,WALLS,BALUSTRADE AND TERRACE WALLS ATTACHED TO AND TO SOUTH EAST OF LILFORD HALL
Statutory Address 1:: GATE ARCH,SEAT NICHE,WALLS,BALUSTRADE AND TERRACE WALLS ATTACHED TO AND TO SOUTH EAST OF LILFORD HALL, LILFORD PARK

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:: GATE ARCH,SEAT NICHE,WALLS,BALUSTRADE AND TERRACE WALLS ATTACHED TO AND TO SOUTH EAST OF LILFORD HALL, LILFORD PARK

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

District:: North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Lilford-cum-Wigsthorpe
National Grid Reference:: TL 02935 84046

Details

LILFORD CUM WIGSTHORPE LILFORD PARK TL0284 16/96 Gate arch, seat niche, walls, balustrade and terrace walls attached to and to SE of Lilford Hall GV II

Gate arch, seat niche, walls, balustrade and terrace walls. Mid C19 by W.G. Habershon of St. Neots. Limestone ashlar. Gatearch to left in Jacobean style has arch-head opening flanked by columns supporting an entablature with bracketed cornice. Device with scrolls and finial above. Flanking walls are rusticated and have open arched parapet. Balustrade attached at right angles to left of gatearch is similar with rusticated square piers, some with ball finials. Seat niche to right is similar to gatearch but with curved back and seat with shell hood. Flanking walls are rusticated. Gate arch and seat niche are linked by terrace walls with central flight of steps. Originally part of formal garden layout to east of Lilford Hall (q.v.). Gatearch forms pair with, and part of, forecourt with Gatearch, walls and balustrade attached to south-west of Lilford Hall (q.v.), Balustrade approximately 30 metres south-west of Lilford Hall, Gates, gateways, balustrade and seat approximately 50 metres north-east, east and south of Lilford Hall (q.v.). (Northamptonshire Records Office, Architectural Drawings Collection; Country Life, Jan 27th 1900, p.112-117).

Listing NGR: TL0293584046

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 232819
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'Country Life' in 27 January, (1900), 112-117

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.