HA HA AROUND MANSION AT PISHIOBURY PARK

HA HA AROUND MANSION AT PISHIOBURY PARK, PISHIOBURY DRIVE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1347832
Date first listed:: 02-Oct-1981
List Entry Name:: HA HA AROUND MANSION AT PISHIOBURY PARK
Statutory Address:: HA HA AROUND MANSION AT PISHIOBURY PARK, PISHIOBURY DRIVE

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Date:: 2001-07-24
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1347832
Date first listed:: 02-Oct-1981
List Entry Name:: HA HA AROUND MANSION AT PISHIOBURY PARK
Statutory Address 1:: HA HA AROUND MANSION AT PISHIOBURY PARK, PISHIOBURY DRIVE

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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Location

Statutory Address:: HA HA AROUND MANSION AT PISHIOBURY PARK, PISHIOBURY DRIVE

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Sawbridgeworth
National Grid Reference:: TL 48033 13444

Details

PISHIOBURY DRIVE 1. 5253 (East End) Ha-ha around Mansion at Pishiobury Park TL 480 155:6/50 II GV 2. Later C18 probably 1782-3 by Lancelot (Capability) Brown (1716-83). Red brick wall of good quality with regular coursing, set below ground level as a vertical revetment on the inner or house side of a ditch to prevent the ingress of cattle while being invisible in views out. 12 courses of brickwork with brick on edge coping flush with lawn. Best preserved section NW of mansion follows an irregular serpentine line from drive to lake. Characteristic landscape garden feature.

Listing NGR: TL4803313444

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Legacy System number:: 160837
Legacy System:: LBS

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 21 Hertfordshire,

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.