Forecourt Retaining Wall Approximately 70 Metres to South West of Loton Park
FORECOURT RETAINING WALL APPROXIMATELY 70 METRES TO SOUTH WEST OF LOTON PARK
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 258934
- 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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