Canons Ashby House, Garden Walls Running From South West Corner of House to Lion Gates to South, Including Gate and Gatepiers
CANONS ASHBY HOUSE, GARDEN WALLS RUNNING FROM SOUTH WEST CORNER OF HOUSE TO LION GATES TO SOUTH, INCLUDING GATE AND GATEPIERS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1343564
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Canons Ashby House, Garden Walls Running From South West Corner of House to Lion Gates to South, Including Gate and Gatepiers
- Statutory Address:
- CANONS ASHBY HOUSE, GARDEN WALLS RUNNING FROM SOUTH WEST CORNER OF HOUSE TO LION GATES TO SOUTH, INCLUDING GATE AND GATEPIERS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1343564
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1968
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Canons Ashby House, Garden Walls Running From South West Corner of House to Lion Gates to South, Including Gate and Gatepiers
- Statutory Address 1:
- CANONS ASHBY HOUSE, GARDEN WALLS RUNNING FROM SOUTH WEST CORNER OF HOUSE TO LION GATES TO SOUTH, INCLUDING GATE AND GATEPIERS
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:
- CANONS ASHBY HOUSE, GARDEN WALLS RUNNING FROM SOUTH WEST CORNER OF HOUSE TO LION GATES TO SOUTH, INCLUDING GATE AND GATEPIERS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Canons Ashby
- National Grid Reference:
- SP5764450666
Details
SP5750
19/34
18/01/68
CANONS ASHBY
Canons Ashby House, garden walls running from SW corner of House to Lion gates to S, including gate and gatepiers
(Formerly listed as Walls to court and garden and gatepiers at Canons Ashby)
GV
II
Garden wall, gate and gatepiers. Early C18. Coursed squared ironstone, some
limestone dressings. High stone coped wall forming S boundary to Green Court
with row of eared stone urns, and consoles where wall meets SW angle of Canons
Ashby House and at far end of Green Court where it meets the pier at this
corner. Pier has moulded plinth and cornice, plain sides and obelisk supported
by 4 stone scrolls. A C16 re-used doorway with 4-centred moulded arch head and
carved spandrels gives access from Green Court to garden. From pier at SW angle
of Green Court a low stone coped wall runs N to gates of Green Court with timber
posts at intervals which have pierced finials and support 2 wrought iron rails.
Another high stone coped wall runs S from Green court to gates and gatepiers to
park. Gatepiers have moulded plinths and cornices, plain sides and large eared
and gadrooned urns. C19 iron gates. From gates to park, a similar wall runs S to
a pier at SW angle of garden. Pier has stone armour (renewed) on square moulded
base with splayed feet. From this pier a low wall retaining the garden and
giving views of the park turns E then NE retaining SE corner of terrace and S
down to the Lion gates (q.v.) at the bottom of the orchard.
(National Trust Guide: 1981 pp.30-34; Canons Ashby gardens and park are included
in the HBMC Register of Gardens at Grade II*).
Listing NGR: SP5764450666
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 360524
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
National Trust Guide, (1981), 30-34
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 30 Northamptonshire,
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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