HA HA TO WEST OF WOTTON HOUSE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1311188
Date first listed:: 26-Feb-1985
List Entry Name:: HA HA TO WEST OF WOTTON HOUSE
Statutory Address:: HA HA TO WEST OF WOTTON HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1311188
Date first listed:: 26-Feb-1985
List Entry Name:: HA HA TO WEST OF WOTTON HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: HA HA TO WEST OF WOTTON HOUSE

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: HA HA TO WEST OF WOTTON HOUSE

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

District:: Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Wotton Underwood
National Grid Reference:: SP 68421 16165

Details

SP 61 NE WOTTON UNDERWOOD WOTTON HOUSE

3/171 Ha-ha to west of Wotton House

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GV II

Ha-ha. Early or mid C18. Ashlar. Shaped plan with central semi-circular projection to west and recessed flanking bays. The rubblestone walls have brick arches and sloping dry stone infilling at the back of the arches. The walls were covered in the late C19 and early C20 by an ashlar wall, removed in places (late C20) to expose the earlier work. Divides garden from landscaped park.

The historic designed landscape surrounding an early-C18 country house, with a contemporary layout, probably by George London and Henry Wise, developed into an extensive mid-C18 park for George Grenville by Lancelot Brown; William Pitt, later first Earl of Chatham, is credited with significant input with regard to the design.

Listing NGR: SP6842116165

The List entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 10 August 2016 as part of the tercentenary of Lancelot Capability Brown's birth.

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 42558
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Buckinghamshire, (1994), 764-7
Phipps, J L (Debois Landscape Survey Group), Wotton Underwood: A survey of the landscape, (1999)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 4 Buckinghamshire,

Legal

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