STATUE OF VENUS ON EAST SIDE OF DRIVE AT GRANGE FARM

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1342234
Date first listed:: 29-May-1986
List Entry Name:: STATUE OF VENUS ON EAST SIDE OF DRIVE AT GRANGE FARM
Statutory Address:: STATUE OF VENUS ON EAST SIDE OF DRIVE AT GRANGE FARM

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1342234
Date first listed:: 29-May-1986
List Entry Name:: STATUE OF VENUS ON EAST SIDE OF DRIVE AT GRANGE FARM
Statutory Address 1:: STATUE OF VENUS ON EAST SIDE OF DRIVE AT GRANGE FARM

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: STATUE OF VENUS ON EAST SIDE OF DRIVE AT GRANGE FARM

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: Dacorum (District Authority)
Parish:: Tring Rural
National Grid Reference:: SP 88578 14712

Details

TRING RURAL PUTTENHAM SP 81 SE 3/135 Statue of Venus on - E side of drive at Grange Farm GV II Statue. '1741', 'JAN VAN LOGTTAREN' inscribed on base at side and rear. Brought from The Green Park, Aston Clinton c.1948. Carved stone. A larger than lifesize standing figure of Venus with drapery standing before a large scallop shell with a winged child (now headless). Moulded bluestone plinth with concave corners. One of a matched pair with statue of Adonis (q.v.) and one contemporary plinth is nearby (q.v.)

Listing NGR: SP8857814712

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 355772
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.