Ornamental Fountain Attached Wall and Railings
ORNAMENTAL FOUNTAIN ATTACHED WALL AND RAILINGS, THE GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1334767
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Ornamental Fountain Attached Wall and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- ORNAMENTAL FOUNTAIN ATTACHED WALL AND RAILINGS, THE GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1334767
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Ornamental Fountain Attached Wall and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- ORNAMENTAL FOUNTAIN ATTACHED WALL AND RAILINGS, THE GREEN
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:
- ORNAMENTAL FOUNTAIN ATTACHED WALL AND RAILINGS, THE GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- Derbyshire Dales (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Edensor
- National Park:
- Peak District
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 25124 69940
Details
PARISH OF EDENSOR THE GREEN SK 24/2569-24/2570 7/117 (South Side) Ornamental Fountain, Attached Wall and Railings GV II Ornamental fountain, water basin and attached walls and railings. 1840 by John Robertson. Norman style. Coursed squared sandstone and ashlar. Built into a bank as a retaining wall. North elevation has central projecting block with pseudo machicolation and moulded parapet. Blind round arch, like a Norman doorway, of three stepped orders. Chamfered impost band. The arch has zigzag to the inner order and moulded corbels on the outer order. Chamfered hoodmould. Within the arch the spout of the fountain has the relief of a wild man. Moulded semi-circular water basin. Wall to the right with parapet and corbelled-out square turret with pyramid cap. To the left a square tower-like bay with two blind Caernarvon arched windows. Above the central feature a square turret with blind Caernarvon-arched windows flanked by paired pilaster strips. Pyramid roof. Coped walls to either side and to north low walls surmounted by railings with square angle piers with pyramid caps enclosing a garden. Built as part of the picturesque model village by Paxton for the Sixth Duke of Devonshire. Sources: G F Chadwick The Works of Joseph Paxton, Architectural Press 1961.
Listing NGR: SK2512469940
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 81685
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Chadwick, GF, The Works of Sir Joseph Paxton, (1961)
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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