Sunken Gardens at Site of Drakelow Hall
SUNKEN GARDENS AT SITE OF DRAKELOW HALL, WALTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1334614
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Sunken Gardens at Site of Drakelow Hall
- Statutory Address:
- SUNKEN GARDENS AT SITE OF DRAKELOW HALL, WALTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1334614
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Sunken Gardens at Site of Drakelow Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- SUNKEN GARDENS AT SITE OF DRAKELOW HALL, WALTON ROAD
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.
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:
- SUNKEN GARDENS AT SITE OF DRAKELOW HALL, WALTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- South Derbyshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Drakelow
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 23978 20389
Details
SK 22 SW PARISH OF DRAKELOW WALTON ROAD 1/18 (North Side) Sunken Gardens at Site of Drakelow Hall GV II
Sunken garden walls and terraces. 1902 by Reginald Blomfield for Robert Gresley of Drakelow Hall. Brick and ashlar. Rectangular plan with River Trent to north side and raised terraces to other three sides. Central ashlar pavilion to south side with moulded semi-circular arch plus large double keystone flanked by attached Tuscan columns. Pavilion has balcony to top with flight of steps to either side. Vase balustrade now mostly missing. Inside the pavilion is a plaque inscribed 'Robert Gresley 11th Baronet built these terrace AD 1902 as a monument to the memory of his beloved mother, Laura, Lady Gresley'. Attached to either side of the pavilion there are high rubble retaining walls with moulded circular niches on moulded stone brackets, and rusticated buttresses. East and west retaining walls are of brick and have large segment headed recesses to south end and a series of oval brick niches on brick corbels to north. Beyond to north at a lower level, there are rusticated semi-circular headed brick archways with large double keystones, which lead out of the garden. The short walls to either side, have bands of tile hanging. The northern ends of the terraces each have a brick retaining wall with a semi-circular headed arch of alternating coloured bricks enclosing a small semi- circular headed niche. Drakelow Hall was demolished in 1934 and Drakelow Power Station now occupies most of the site.
Listing NGR: SK2397820389
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 82950
- 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.
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