TWO TUNNELS APPROXIMATELY 120 METRES SOUTH EAST OF ETTINGTON PARK HOTEL

TWO TUNNELS APPROXIMATELY 120 METRES SOUTH EAST OF ETTINGTON PARK HOTEL, SHIPSTON ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1382589
Date first listed:: 07-Jan-1993
List Entry Name:: TWO TUNNELS APPROXIMATELY 120 METRES SOUTH EAST OF ETTINGTON PARK HOTEL
Statutory Address:: TWO TUNNELS APPROXIMATELY 120 METRES SOUTH EAST OF ETTINGTON PARK HOTEL, SHIPSTON ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1382589
Date first listed:: 07-Jan-1993
Date of most recent amendment:: 26-Apr-2000
List Entry Name:: TWO TUNNELS APPROXIMATELY 120 METRES SOUTH EAST OF ETTINGTON PARK HOTEL
Statutory Address 1:: TWO TUNNELS APPROXIMATELY 120 METRES SOUTH EAST OF ETTINGTON PARK HOTEL, SHIPSTON ROAD

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:: TWO TUNNELS APPROXIMATELY 120 METRES SOUTH EAST OF ETTINGTON PARK HOTEL, SHIPSTON ROAD

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

County:: Warwickshire
District:: Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
Parish:: Ettington
National Grid Reference:: SP 24856 47218

Details

ETTINGTON

SP24NW SHIPSTON ROAD, Alderminster 1912-1/6/80 (North East side) 07/01/93 Two tunnels approx. 120m SE of Ettington Park Hotel (Formerly Listed as: ETTINGTON 2 Tunnels about 120m SE of Ettington Park)

GV II

Garden folly. C18 or possibly C19. Coursed limestone. 2 barrel-vaulted tunnels adjacent to each other under shrubbery. Both tunnels are slightly curved on plan with entrances to either end. They are about 1m wide and 2m high with circular ventilation or light shafts at about 4m intervals capped with wrought iron grilles. The 1st tunnel has a baffle entrance to one end. Towards one end of the 2nd tunnel is a short spur tunnel leading up to a wider entrance chamber. Ettington Park is an ancient deer park, landscaped in the C18 and altered when the house (Ettington Park qv) was altered and enlarged 1853-62.

Listing NGR: SP2485647218

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Legacy System number:: 482973
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.