East and West Courts and Linking South Boundary Wall of Formal Garden at Barrow Court
EAST AND WEST COURTS AND LINKING SOUTH BOUNDARY WALL OF FORMAL GARDEN AT BARROW COURT, BARROW COURT LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1320932
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- East and West Courts and Linking South Boundary Wall of Formal Garden at Barrow Court
- Statutory Address:
- EAST AND WEST COURTS AND LINKING SOUTH BOUNDARY WALL OF FORMAL GARDEN AT BARROW COURT, BARROW COURT LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1320932
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- East and West Courts and Linking South Boundary Wall of Formal Garden at Barrow Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- EAST AND WEST COURTS AND LINKING SOUTH BOUNDARY WALL OF FORMAL GARDEN AT BARROW COURT, BARROW COURT LANE
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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:
- EAST AND WEST COURTS AND LINKING SOUTH BOUNDARY WALL OF FORMAL GARDEN AT BARROW COURT, BARROW COURT LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Barrow Gurney
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 51392 68524
Details
ST 56 NW BARROW GURNEY C.P. BARROW COURT LANE (west side)
3/12 East and West Courts and linking south Boundary Wall of formal garden at Barrow Court
G.V. II*
2 walled Courts and Garden Wall. Circa 1890 by F. Inigo Thomas. Squared and coursed rubble to Courtyard walls, rubble to Garden Wall both with dressed stone copings. Ashlar quoins and archways to Courts, iron railings. Each Court gives access through round-arched entrances to the North Lawn and the cross axis path along the north boundary of the Rose Garden. The arches to the East Court have simple roll mouldings and hipped Lutyens-style caps; those to the West Court are more ornate with foliage friezes, attached Ionic pilasters and bracketted keystones. South wall of East Court has lean-to stone tiled canopy on carved wooden brackets and east wall has inset ashlar panel with carved cartouche:and fruit and flower swags in high relief, below which is a plank settle with hood and ashlar table on large balusters. South and west walls of West Court have a continuous settle sheltered by a wooden round-arched loggia of Jacobean derivation. Both courts have ramped walls up to archways with simple iron railings between and corner obelisk finials, also 12 steps down to Lawn. Linking Boundary Wall doubles as churchyard wall on east and Rose Garden wall on south and west sides. These features together with several others comprise a fine formal garden layout designed by Thomas for Henry Martin Gibbs; it is included in the Historic Gardens Register : Part 1 Avon. (Country Life, 18 January 1902, R. Cooke, West Country Houses, 1957).
Listing NGR: ST5139268524
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 33880
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cooke, R, West Country Houses, (1957)
Country Life in 18 January, (1902)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic interest in England, Part 1 Avon,
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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