RETAINING WALL ON EAST SIDE OF POND SITUATED ABOUT 50 YARDS NORTH-WEST OF HANBURY HALL

RETAINING WALL ON EAST SIDE OF POND SITUATED ABOUT 50 YARDS NORTH-WEST OF HANBURY HALL, SCHOOL ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1350128
Date first listed:: 04-Sep-1986
List Entry Name:: RETAINING WALL ON EAST SIDE OF POND SITUATED ABOUT 50 YARDS NORTH-WEST OF HANBURY HALL
Statutory Address:: RETAINING WALL ON EAST SIDE OF POND SITUATED ABOUT 50 YARDS NORTH-WEST OF HANBURY HALL, SCHOOL ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1350128
Date first listed:: 04-Sep-1986
List Entry Name:: RETAINING WALL ON EAST SIDE OF POND SITUATED ABOUT 50 YARDS NORTH-WEST OF HANBURY HALL
Statutory Address 1:: RETAINING WALL ON EAST SIDE OF POND SITUATED ABOUT 50 YARDS NORTH-WEST OF HANBURY HALL, SCHOOL ROAD

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: RETAINING WALL ON EAST SIDE OF POND SITUATED ABOUT 50 YARDS NORTH-WEST OF HANBURY HALL, SCHOOL ROAD

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

County:: Worcestershire
District:: Wychavon (District Authority)
Parish:: Hanbury
National Grid Reference:: SO 94347 63761

Details

HANBURY CP SCHOOL ROAD (north side) SO 96 SW 3/133 Retaining wall on east side of pond situated about 50 yards north-west of Hanbury Hall GV II Retaining wall. Early C18, rebuilt mid-C19. Brick in English garden wall bond with sandstone coping. Roughly a quadrant about 20 yards long with a west end return and terminating at north end in square pier with pyramidal capping. The wall was originally linked to one of a pair of pavilions forming a boundary between the formal garden layout by George London and the pond and deer park beyond (the original layout is clearly illustrated in a perspective drawing of 1732 by Joseph Dougharty). (Hanbury Hall, The National Trust Official Guidebook, 1981, p 27-30; VCH 3 (ii), p 372-3; Country Life xxxix, p 502; CXLiii 18, 16, gardens x 368).

Listing NGR: SO9434763761

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 147809
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Hanbury Hall, (1981), 27-30
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Worcester, (1913), 372-3
'Country Life' in Country Life, , Vol. 10, (1901), 368
'Country Life' in Country Life, , Vol. 143, (1968), 16 18
'Country Life' in Country Life, , Vol. 34, (), 502
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 20 Hereford and Worcester,

Legal

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