FORECOURT RETAINING WALL APPROXIMATELY 70 METRES TO SOUTH WEST OF LOTON PARK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1366889
Date first listed:: 18-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:: FORECOURT RETAINING WALL APPROXIMATELY 70 METRES TO SOUTH WEST OF LOTON PARK
Statutory Address:: FORECOURT RETAINING WALL APPROXIMATELY 70 METRES TO SOUTH WEST OF LOTON PARK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1366889
Date first listed:: 18-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:: FORECOURT RETAINING WALL APPROXIMATELY 70 METRES TO SOUTH WEST OF LOTON PARK
Statutory Address 1:: FORECOURT RETAINING WALL APPROXIMATELY 70 METRES TO SOUTH WEST OF LOTON PARK

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:: FORECOURT RETAINING WALL APPROXIMATELY 70 METRES TO SOUTH WEST OF LOTON PARK

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

District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Alberbury with Cardeston
National Grid Reference:: SJ3564114661

Details

SJ 3514 ALBERBURY WITH ALBERBURY CARDESTON C.P. 12/29 Forecourt retaining wall - approx. 70 metres to south-west of Loton Park

GV II

Forecourt retaining wall. Circa 1840. Roughly coursed red sandstone rubble base; red sandstone ashlar parapet and piers. Approximately 40 metres long with each end canted back; Tudor Gothic style. Parapets to angled pieces at each end only with chamfered plinths and copings, square inner end piers with cinquefoil-panelled urn finials, and ramps up to square gate piers at outer ends with trefoil-panelled sides and gabled tops. Ha-ha to south-west. Thomas Jones of Chester carried out work at Loton Park (qv) in c.1830 and c.1838 and might also be responsible for the retaining wall which forms the fourth side of the forecourt to the house. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SJ3564114661

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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.