WALL RETAINING UPPER TERRACE ON GARDEN FRONT OF EASTNOR CASTLE, AND STEPS AND ARCADED FOUNTAIN AT SOUTH-WEST END

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1349512
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:: WALL RETAINING UPPER TERRACE ON GARDEN FRONT OF EASTNOR CASTLE, AND STEPS AND ARCADED FOUNTAIN AT SOUTH-WEST END
Statutory Address:: WALL RETAINING UPPER TERRACE ON GARDEN FRONT OF EASTNOR CASTLE, AND STEPS AND ARCADED FOUNTAIN AT SOUTH-WEST END

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1349512
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:: WALL RETAINING UPPER TERRACE ON GARDEN FRONT OF EASTNOR CASTLE, AND STEPS AND ARCADED FOUNTAIN AT SOUTH-WEST END
Statutory Address 1:: WALL RETAINING UPPER TERRACE ON GARDEN FRONT OF EASTNOR CASTLE, AND STEPS AND ARCADED FOUNTAIN AT SOUTH-WEST END

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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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Statutory Address:: WALL RETAINING UPPER TERRACE ON GARDEN FRONT OF EASTNOR CASTLE, AND STEPS AND ARCADED FOUNTAIN AT SOUTH-WEST END

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District:: County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Eastnor
National Grid Reference:: SO 73517 36837

Details

EASTNOR CP EASTNOR SO 73 NW

4/32 Wall retaining upper terrace on garden front of Eastnor - Castle, and steps and arcaded fountain at south- west end

GV II

Terrace retaining wall, steps and arcaded fountain. 1811-20 by Robert Smirke, altered. 1870s by G E Fox and arcaded fountain late 1880s by Fox for Lady Henry Somerset. Retaining wall approximately 5 m high. Coursed and squared rubble, corbelled out, embattled, ashlar parapet. Squared projection at north end and smaller off-centre projection. At the south-west end is a flight of steps down to the lower terrace. Set against this flight is a tall, triple arcade, in the centre of which is set a relief panel of arms and supporters and a central spout. The spout feeds into a freestanding pillar fountain enriched with waterleaf ornament, a stag's head and a fishscale top. The basin of the fountain is surrounded by a low wall.

Listing NGR: SO7351736837

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 20 Hereford and Worcester,

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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.