Garden Walls Attached to South Front of Melbourne Hall With Attached Railings and Wall to East
GARDEN WALLS ATTACHED TO SOUTH FRONT OF MELBOURNE HALL WITH ATTACHED RAILINGS AND WALL TO EAST, POOL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1334648
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Garden Walls Attached to South Front of Melbourne Hall With Attached Railings and Wall to East
- Statutory Address:
- GARDEN WALLS ATTACHED TO SOUTH FRONT OF MELBOURNE HALL WITH ATTACHED RAILINGS AND WALL TO EAST, POOL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1334648
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Garden Walls Attached to South Front of Melbourne Hall With Attached Railings and Wall to East
- Statutory Address 1:
- GARDEN WALLS ATTACHED TO SOUTH FRONT OF MELBOURNE HALL WITH ATTACHED RAILINGS AND WALL TO EAST, POOL ROAD
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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:
- GARDEN WALLS ATTACHED TO SOUTH FRONT OF MELBOURNE HALL WITH ATTACHED RAILINGS AND WALL TO EAST, POOL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- South Derbyshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Melbourne
- National Grid Reference:
- SK3898624974
Details
SK 38/3925 PARISH OF MELBOURNE POOL ROAD
6/151 (North Side)
10.11.67 Garden Walls Attached
to South Front of
Melbourne Hall with
Attached Railings and
Wall to East (formerly
listed as 'Wrought iron
balustrade on terrace
and walls of forecourt
to Melbourne Hall')
GV I
Garden walls and attached railings. Late C17 and early C18
walls with c1725 railings attached, by Robert Bakewell. Part of
French style garden designed by Royal Gardeners to Queen Anne,
London and Wise for Thomas Coke of Melbourne Hall, with work
carried out by William Cooke of Walcot. Rubble stone and red
brick with stone dressings and iron railings. Walls attached to
either side of south front of the hall are about 12 feet high
with rubble stonework on the east face and red brick to west
face. To north end of each wall is a semi-circular headed
rusticated early C18 arch with large double keystone to top, and
to south end of each wall is a tall stone pier with plain
entablature and a large banded ball finial. Attached to east of
eastern pier are Bakewell's elegant railings with panels of six
elaborate lyre shaped standards with a strapwork frieze to top.
Beyond the railings to east is a high rubble stone wall which
bounds the garden to the south. To eastern end it has a
segmental headed raised doorcase. Included in the Derbyshire
Historic Gardens Register at Grade I. See item 6/63 for
sources.
Listing NGR: SK3898624974
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 83135
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hussey, C, English Gardens and Landscapes 1700-1750, (1967)
Anthony, J, Gardens of Britain, (1979)
Green, D, Gardener to Queen Anne, (1956)
Kerr, V, Melbourne Hall Gardens, (1984)
Pevsner, N, Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Derbyshire, (1978)
Country Life in 14 April, (1928), 526
Country Life in 23 September, (1899), 368
Country Life in 7 April, (1928), 492
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 10 Derbyshire,
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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