STONE SEAT AND ENCLOSURE AT SOUTH END OF LONG WALK AT HARTHAM HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1363982
Date first listed:: 01-Aug-1986
List Entry Name:: STONE SEAT AND ENCLOSURE AT SOUTH END OF LONG WALK AT HARTHAM HOUSE
Statutory Address:: STONE SEAT AND ENCLOSURE AT SOUTH END OF LONG WALK AT HARTHAM HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1363982
Date first listed:: 01-Aug-1986
List Entry Name:: STONE SEAT AND ENCLOSURE AT SOUTH END OF LONG WALK AT HARTHAM HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: STONE SEAT AND ENCLOSURE AT SOUTH END OF LONG WALK AT HARTHAM HOUSE

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: STONE SEAT AND ENCLOSURE AT SOUTH END OF LONG WALK AT HARTHAM HOUSE

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

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Corsham
National Grid Reference:: ST 85989 71889

Details

CORSHAM HARTHAM ST 87 SE 1/157 Stone seat and enclosure at south end of Long Walk at Hartham House GV II

Garden seat and balustraded enclosure, c1905 by H.A. Peto, Bath stone. Stone semi-circular bench with scrolled armrest each end carved as griffon's foot and wooden seating. Roman-style, said to be derived from paintings of Sir L. Alma-Tadema. In front a rectangular lawn enclosed by balustrade ramped up to piers facing Long Walk and with iron gates at west end. (Country Life, 7th August 1909)

Listing NGR: ST8598971889

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Legacy System number:: 315184
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'Country Life' in 7 August, (1909)

Legal

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