EAST TERRACE WALL OF SHIPTON COURT

EAST TERRACE WALL OF SHIPTON COURT, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1368150
Date first listed:: 19-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:: EAST TERRACE WALL OF SHIPTON COURT
Statutory Address:: EAST TERRACE WALL OF SHIPTON COURT, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1368150
Date first listed:: 19-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:: EAST TERRACE WALL OF SHIPTON COURT
Statutory Address 1:: EAST TERRACE WALL OF SHIPTON COURT, HIGH STREET

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:: EAST TERRACE WALL OF SHIPTON COURT, HIGH STREET

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

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Shipton-under-Wychwood
National Grid Reference:: SP2777217463

Details

SHIPTON-UNDER-WYCHWOOD HIGH STREET SP 2617-2717 (east side) 7/66 East Terrace Wall of - Shipton Court GV II Extends from south-east pavilion of Shipton Court (qv) to the south boundary wall (qv Plum Lane). Terrace wall. Circa 1903-06 probably by Bulmer and Perkins. Retaining wall to terrace garden extending to south of Shipton Court (qv). Rubble with triangular weepers, lean-to buttresses capped by ball finials. Two flights of outward-sweeping steps with iron finials to lower piers; the northern flight links with the swimming pool (qv). Part of the beautifully landscaped grounds of Shipton Court; the Jacobean terracing was restored in the early C20.

Listing NGR: SP2777217463

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 34 Oxfordshire

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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.