RETAINING WALLS TO TERRACE, TERMINATING AT THE WEST END IN A RAISED SQUARE OVER A VAULTED UNDERCROFT

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1320876
Date first listed:: 29-Jul-1983
List Entry Name:: RETAINING WALLS TO TERRACE, TERMINATING AT THE WEST END IN A RAISED SQUARE OVER A VAULTED UNDERCROFT
Statutory Address:: RETAINING WALLS TO TERRACE, TERMINATING AT THE WEST END IN A RAISED SQUARE OVER A VAULTED UNDERCROFT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1320876
Date first listed:: 29-Jul-1983
List Entry Name:: RETAINING WALLS TO TERRACE, TERMINATING AT THE WEST END IN A RAISED SQUARE OVER A VAULTED UNDERCROFT
Statutory Address 1:: RETAINING WALLS TO TERRACE, TERMINATING AT THE WEST END IN A RAISED SQUARE OVER A VAULTED UNDERCROFT

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: RETAINING WALLS TO TERRACE, TERMINATING AT THE WEST END IN A RAISED SQUARE OVER A VAULTED UNDERCROFT

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

District:: South Gloucestershire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Sodbury
National Grid Reference:: ST 77498 81612

Details

ST 78 SE SODBURY LYEGROVE 2/120

Retaining walls to terrace, terminating at the west end in a raised square over a vaulted undercroft GV II

Probably mid-C19. In the form of Renaissance fortifications. Coursed rubble with ashlar coping. Embrasures at wide intervals. At the west end the walls enclose raised square "terreplain", with corner bastions. Under the square is a long barrel vaulted storage chamber, possibly an ice-house entered from field level.

The terrace might have been a bowling green.

Listing NGR: ST7749881612

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 34169
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.