TERRACE RETAINING WALL WITH BALUSTRADE AND STEPS SOUTH OF ABBEYSTEAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1317819
Date first listed:: 24-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:: TERRACE RETAINING WALL WITH BALUSTRADE AND STEPS SOUTH OF ABBEYSTEAD
Statutory Address:: TERRACE RETAINING WALL WITH BALUSTRADE AND STEPS SOUTH OF ABBEYSTEAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1317819
Date first listed:: 24-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:: TERRACE RETAINING WALL WITH BALUSTRADE AND STEPS SOUTH OF ABBEYSTEAD
Statutory Address 1:: TERRACE RETAINING WALL WITH BALUSTRADE AND STEPS SOUTH OF ABBEYSTEAD

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:: TERRACE RETAINING WALL WITH BALUSTRADE AND STEPS SOUTH OF ABBEYSTEAD

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

County:: Lancashire
District:: Lancaster (District Authority)
Parish:: Over Wyresdale
National Grid Reference:: SD 56716 54485

Details

SD 55 SE 12/38

OVER WYRESDALE ABBEYSTEAD Terrace retaining wall with balustrade and steps south of Abbeystead

GV II Retaining wall, probably 1887 by Douglas. Buttressed sandstone rubble wall. surmounted by chamfered balusters of rectangular plan forming round-arched openings below a coping. End piers of square plan, mostly with ball finials. At each end and in the middle are flights of stone steps.

Listing NGR: SD5671654485

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Legacy System number:: 182574
Legacy System:: LBS

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