Stables at Alton Towers
Stables at Alton Towers
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1374704
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Stables at Alton Towers
- Statutory Address:
- Stables at Alton Towers
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1374704
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Stables at Alton Towers
- Statutory Address 1:
- Stables at Alton Towers
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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:
- Stables at Alton Towers
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Farley
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 07457 43563
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 14 January 2021 to reformat text to current standards
SK 0643-0743
12/101
FARLEY C.P.
ALTON PARK
Stables at Alton Towers
3/1/67
GV
II
Former stables. Early C19 with later alterations. Ashlar facade with edged herringbone tooling, to painted brick buildings with plain tile roofs. Four ranges surround a rectangular courtyard with an entrance in the centre of each range; Gothic revival facade to the south west. Two storeys with three storey towers and turrets, crenellated parapet, pseudo-machicolations to the towers and central block; eleven bays with a square tower to each corner and two square turrets flanking the central four-centred carriage arch; pointed windows, mainly lancets, those to first floor of towers are larger and contain Y-tracery, square-headed loops to second floor of towers.
This item forms part of the important garden layout at Alton Towers (q.v.) which is included at Grade I on the HBMC Gardens Register.
Listing NGR: SK0745743563
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 275096
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 38 Staffordshire,
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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