Garden Wall and Statue to East of Highnam Court, Running Up to Billiard Room
GARDEN WALL AND STATUE TO EAST OF HIGHNAM COURT, RUNNING UP TO BILLIARD ROOM
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1305671
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Garden Wall and Statue to East of Highnam Court, Running Up to Billiard Room
- Statutory Address:
- GARDEN WALL AND STATUE TO EAST OF HIGHNAM COURT, RUNNING UP TO BILLIARD ROOM
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1305671
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Garden Wall and Statue to East of Highnam Court, Running Up to Billiard Room
- Statutory Address 1:
- GARDEN WALL AND STATUE TO EAST OF HIGHNAM COURT, RUNNING UP TO BILLIARD ROOM
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 WALL AND STATUE TO EAST OF HIGHNAM COURT, RUNNING UP TO BILLIARD ROOM
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Tewkesbury (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Highnam
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 79390 19348
Details
HIGHNAM SO 7819-7919 9/31 Garden wall and statue to east of Highnam Court, running up to Billiard Room GV II Garden wall with gate and niche containing statue. Mid C19 for T. Gambier-Parry. English bond brickwork with ashlar dressings. Wall about 2.2 and 2.7m high, with plain stone capping. Wall extends about 4m from Billiard Room to east: square rusticated pier with moulded cap, gadrooned urn, matched opposite side gate. Between piers moulded stone surround with semi-circular head set in length of wall, wrought-iron double gates with infill over. Above scrolled broken pediment in stone, with mid C19 coat of arms in reconstructed stone (probably Pulhamite). To right of gateway vertical joint in brickwork, top of wall lowered, c100mm offset in face, about 9m from Billiard Room. Semi-circular niche about 6.5m further east, moulded surround, half-dome, wall swept up above. Interior up one stone step, C17 stone statue of Hercules, on square base, with club and lion skin. Wall continues a further llm to a rusticated pier. First part of wall and gateway C17, second part C19, largely back wall of conservatory, since demolished. Statue thought to have been originally in niche on south face of house. (A. Oswald, article in Country Life, CVII, 1950; Gloucs. R.O., D 2586, Highnam Memoranda)
Listing NGR: SO7939019348
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 134322
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Country Life in Country Life, (1950)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 16 Gloucestershire,
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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