Launde Abbey Walls to Kitchen Garden and Attached Cast Iron Greenhouse
LAUNDE ABBEY WALLS TO KITCHEN GARDEN AND ATTACHED CAST-IRON GREENHOUSE, LAUNDE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1361008
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Launde Abbey Walls to Kitchen Garden and Attached Cast Iron Greenhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LAUNDE ABBEY WALLS TO KITCHEN GARDEN AND ATTACHED CAST-IRON GREENHOUSE, LAUNDE ROAD
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- Date:
- 2007-07-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/16737/25
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1361008
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1985
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Feb-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Launde Abbey Walls to Kitchen Garden and Attached Cast Iron Greenhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LAUNDE ABBEY WALLS TO KITCHEN GARDEN AND ATTACHED CAST-IRON GREENHOUSE, LAUNDE ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- LAUNDE ABBEY WALLS TO KITCHEN GARDEN AND ATTACHED CAST-IRON GREENHOUSE, LAUNDE ROAD
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:
- LAUNDE ABBEY WALLS TO KITCHEN GARDEN AND ATTACHED CAST-IRON GREENHOUSE, LAUNDE ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- LAUNDE ABBEY WALLS TO KITCHEN GARDEN AND ATTACHED CAST-IRON GREENHOUSE, LAUNDE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Harborough (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Launde
- National Grid Reference:
- SK7989404295
Details
In the entry for
5/48
LAUNDE
LAUNDE ROAD
Launde Abbey
Walls to Kitchen Garden
The address shall be amended to read:
LAUNDE ROAD
Launde Abbey
Walls to Kitchen Garden and attached cast-iron greenhouse
The following shall be added at the end of the description:
Greenhouse. Late C18/early C19. Brick plinth with stone coping and cast-iron
and glass. Long lean-to roof now of plastic corrugated sheeting. At lowest
point at front are 20 small sections each of 10 panes with cast-iron glazing
bars. The sides and partition walls have multiple narrow uprights with overlap-
ping panes between. Part-glazed doors. Interior: the main struts of the roof
frame remain and are supported on very slender cast-iron columns. Brick benches
and planters and stone and tile floors. 3 niches in the main garden wall which
retains its hypocaust heating tunnels at this point. The other greenhouse of
wood and the bothies to rear of the main greenhouse behind the wall are not of
special architectural interest.
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SK 70 SE
5/48
LAUNDE
LAUNDE ROAD
Launde Abbey
Walls to Kitchen Garden
GV
II
Wall. Early C19. Brick with tiled coping. Circa 10' high and forming a large
square enclosure.
Listing NGR: SK7989404295
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 190575
- 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.
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