LEEZ PRIORY GARDEN WALL

LEEZ PRIORY GARDEN WALL, LEEZ LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1322296
Date first listed:: 20-Feb-1967
List Entry Name:: LEEZ PRIORY GARDEN WALL
Statutory Address:: LEEZ PRIORY GARDEN WALL, LEEZ LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1322296
Date first listed:: 20-Feb-1967
Date of most recent amendment:: 06-Aug-1984
List Entry Name:: LEEZ PRIORY GARDEN WALL
Statutory Address 1:: LEEZ PRIORY GARDEN WALL, LEEZ LANE

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:: LEEZ PRIORY GARDEN WALL, LEEZ LANE

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

County:: Essex
District:: Uttlesford (District Authority)
Parish:: Felsted
National Grid Reference:: TL 70030 18494

Details

TL 71 NW FELSTED LEEZ LANE

8/185 Leez Priory - Garden Wall 20.2.67 (formerly listed as Walls of the kitchen garden)

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Wall of 3 sides, south, west and north. probably contemporary with main buildings on the site approx. 1537. Red brick built with dentil to moulded coping. Generally approx. 8-10 ft. high but rising to 20 ft.+ at south face where it incorporates the remains of a former building, with 2 eastern extensions, the northern-most continuing south east, this section has pug holes for floor joists and has a "knocked-out" opening to the west. South and West faces have 8 buttresses each. There is a fine wrought iron entrance gate to the South East extension and a smaller wrought iron garden gate in the west face. The whole encloses an orchard, kitchen garden and fish pond and terminates to the S.E. at the Entrance Gate and adjoining outbuilding and to the N.E. at the Fisherman's Hut.

Listing NGR: TL7003018494

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Legacy System number:: 122634
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.