Terraces, Balustraded Bastions, Steps and Boat House
TERRACES, BALUSTRADED BASTIONS, STEPS AND BOAT HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1307796
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Terraces, Balustraded Bastions, Steps and Boat House
- Statutory Address:
- TERRACES, BALUSTRADED BASTIONS, STEPS AND BOAT HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1307796
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Terraces, Balustraded Bastions, Steps and Boat House
- Statutory Address 1:
- TERRACES, BALUSTRADED BASTIONS, STEPS AND BOAT 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:
- TERRACES, BALUSTRADED BASTIONS, STEPS AND BOAT HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Welshampton and Lyneal
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ4110534732
Details
ELLESMERE RURAL C.P.
SJ 4034-4134
18/140
OTELEY
Terraces, balustraded bastions, steps and boat house
GV
II
Terraces, balustraded bastions, steps and boat house. Circa 1826 to 1842 for Charles Kynaston Mainwaring. Snecked yellow sandstone with ashlar dressings. Upper and lower terraces, former approximately loom in length and terminating in bastions, latter rather shorter and linked by straight flight of steps roughly at half-way point of upper terrace, continued down to boat house. Upper terrace with ramped parapet has regularly spaced sloping buttresses and a total of four bastions, northern and first from south with projecting balustrades to top. Panelled urn with stepped plinth and base to south bastion. Curious kiln-like structure below approached through chamfered Tudor arches in sides. Various flights of steps down from upper to lower terrace, principal one to centre carried down to boat house with ornamental black and white pebbled paths displaying both guilloche and geometrical patterns. Stone bench to platform above boat house with tourelle to south-west corner. Bank of mere reached by external steps to north side and boat house itself has twin segmental-chamfered arches.
Charles Kynaston Mainwaring was a keen amateur gardener and he travelled extensively on the continent. It is believed that he was personally responsible for much of the design of the garden at Oteley and for the features therein. His house, Oteley Park, built for him in an Elizabethan style on the site of an earlier building between 1826 and 1830 and extended in 1842 was demolished circa 1960. The terraces are magnificently sited above the mere.
This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 26 October 2016.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 260839
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Stackhouse Acton, F, The Castles and Old Mansions of Shropshire, (1868), 58
Leach, F, The County Seats of Shropshire, (1891), 19-23
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958), 226
Reid, P, Burkes and Savills Guide to Country Houses in Herefordshire Shropshire Warwickshire Worcestershire, Vol. 2, (1980), 106-7
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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