WALLS, GATEPIERS AND ATTACHED GATES ATTACHED TO APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES EAST OF EAST FRONT OF APETHORPE PALACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1371990
Date first listed:: 23-May-1967
List Entry Name:: WALLS, GATEPIERS AND ATTACHED GATES ATTACHED TO APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES EAST OF EAST FRONT OF APETHORPE PALACE
Statutory Address:: WALLS, GATEPIERS AND ATTACHED GATES ATTACHED TO APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES EAST OF EAST FRONT OF APETHORPE PALACE

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Date:: 2003-09-29
Reference:: IOE01/11335/33
Rights:: © Mr Roger Ashley. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1371990
Date first listed:: 23-May-1967
List Entry Name:: WALLS, GATEPIERS AND ATTACHED GATES ATTACHED TO APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES EAST OF EAST FRONT OF APETHORPE PALACE
Statutory Address 1:: WALLS, GATEPIERS AND ATTACHED GATES ATTACHED TO APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES EAST OF EAST FRONT OF APETHORPE PALACE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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:: WALLS, GATEPIERS AND ATTACHED GATES ATTACHED TO APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES EAST OF EAST FRONT OF APETHORPE PALACE

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

District:: North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Apethorpe
National Grid Reference:: TL 02425 95454

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 03/02/2015. APETHORPE APETHORPE PARK TL0295 18/3 Walls, gatepiers and attached 23/05/67 gates attached to and extending approx. 40m E of E front of Apethorpe Palace GV II Walls, gatepiers and attached gates. Early C20 by Sir Reginald Blomfield for Leonard Brassey later Baron Brassey. Limestone ashlar gatepiers and balustrade, to east, and squared coursed limestone walls to north and south. wrought iron gates to centre of south and east sides, gates to north now missing. Gatepiers have obelisks with swags and ball finials. Similar piers at corners. Open balustrade with 12 sub-divisions to east. The forecourt was originally the gravel garden of the early C18. The walls, gatepiers and attached gates form part of the forecourt layout to Apethorpe Palace with Apethorpe Palace (q.v.) and wall and gatepier attached to north-east corner of East front of Apethorpe Palace (q.v.). (Country Life: March 20th 1909, p414-423: March 27th 1909, p450-459)

Listing NGR: TL0242595454

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Legacy System number:: 233009
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'Country Life' in 20 March, (1909), 414-423
'Country Life' in 27 March, (1909), 450-459

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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.