URN ABOUT ONE METRE NORTH-EAST OF PORCH OF MORTON HALL

Urn 1 metre NE of porch, Morton Hall, Morton Hall Lane, Holberrow Green, Redditch, B96 6SJ

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Overview

Garden urn, dating from the C18, in stone. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1301765
Date first listed:: 28-Jun-1985
List Entry Name:: URN ABOUT ONE METRE NORTH-EAST OF PORCH OF MORTON HALL
Statutory Address:: Urn 1 metre NE of porch, Morton Hall, Morton Hall Lane, Holberrow Green, Redditch, B96 6SJ

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1301765
Date first listed:: 28-Jun-1985
Date of most recent amendment:: 27-Jun-2011
List Entry Name:: URN ABOUT ONE METRE NORTH-EAST OF PORCH OF MORTON HALL
Statutory Address 1:: Urn 1 metre NE of porch, Morton Hall, Morton Hall Lane, Holberrow Green, Redditch, B96 6SJ

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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Urn 1 metre NE of porch, Morton Hall, Morton Hall Lane, Holberrow Green, Redditch, B96 6SJ

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

County:: Worcestershire
District:: Wychavon (District Authority)
Parish:: Inkberrow
National Grid Reference:: SP0187959403

Summary

Garden urn, dating from the C18, in stone.

Reasons for Designation

The C18 garden urn circa 1 metre north-east of the porch of Morton Hall is designated at Grade II, for the following principal reasons: * Architectural and historic: the urn is an elegant classical design, dates from before 1840, and is in situ * Group value: with the other urn with which it forms a pair, and Morton Hall (listed Grade II), outside whose main entrance it stands

History

Morton Hall was built circa 1781, a smaller country house in the manor of Morton Underhill in Inkberrow. The house underwent some alteration in the later C19, and again in the C20. The urns appear to date from the earlier phase of development.

Details

Garden urn, dating from the C18, in stone. The urn is classical in style, with a rolled top and curving handles, on a pedestal; it is decorated with putti, much eroded. The urn is set on a square plinth, and situated to one side of the main entrance porch of Morton Hall.

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 148373
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.