RETAINING WALL TO THE RAISED GARDEN TO THE SOUTH WEST OF ENDSLEIGH HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1326345
Date first listed:: 07-Nov-1985
List Entry Name:: RETAINING WALL TO THE RAISED GARDEN TO THE SOUTH WEST OF ENDSLEIGH HOUSE
Statutory Address:: RETAINING WALL TO THE RAISED GARDEN TO THE SOUTH WEST OF ENDSLEIGH HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1326345
Date first listed:: 07-Nov-1985
List Entry Name:: RETAINING WALL TO THE RAISED GARDEN TO THE SOUTH WEST OF ENDSLEIGH HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: RETAINING WALL TO THE RAISED GARDEN TO THE SOUTH WEST OF ENDSLEIGH 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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: RETAINING WALL TO THE RAISED GARDEN TO THE SOUTH WEST OF ENDSLEIGH HOUSE

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

County:: Devon
District:: West Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Milton Abbot
National Grid Reference:: SX 39076 78597

Details

SX 37 NE MILTON ABBOT ENDSLEIGH

9/216 Retaining wall to the raised garden - to the south west of Endsleigh House

GV I

Retaining wall to the raised garden between the principal block of Endsleigh House (qv) and the childrens' cottage. Circa 1810 and possibly designed by Humphry Repton for the 6th Duke of Bedford. Stone rubble with oversailing capping containing a channel for a small artificial stream. The wall is curved and forms part of the crescent-shaped plan of the picturesque Cottage Ornee designed by Sir Jeffry Wyatville. On the south side the wall has an arched recess containing a grotesque head. The raised garden was formerly planted with which may have derived from Repton's study of Oriental gardens in connection with his designs for the Royal Pavilion (Hussey). The parterre and central fountain was a very early revival of a formal garden and is illustrated in the Red Book (1814). Christopher Hussey, Country Life, CXXX, 246; CXXX, 296.

Listing NGR: SX3907678597

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Sources

Books and journals
'Country Life' in 10 August, , Vol. 130, (1961), 296
'Country Life' in 3 August, , Vol. 130, (1961), 246
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 11 Devon,

Legal

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