Former Kitchen Garden Walls to Saltram House

FORMER KITCHEN GARDEN WALLS TO SALTRAM HOUSE, ROMILLY GARDENS

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1386358
Date first listed:
01-May-1975
List Entry Name:
Former Kitchen Garden Walls to Saltram House
Statutory Address:
FORMER KITCHEN GARDEN WALLS TO SALTRAM HOUSE, ROMILLY GARDENS
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1386358
Date first listed:
01-May-1975
Date of most recent amendment:
09-Nov-1998
List Entry Name:
Former Kitchen Garden Walls to Saltram House
Statutory Address 1:
FORMER KITCHEN GARDEN WALLS TO SALTRAM HOUSE, ROMILLY GARDENS

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
FORMER KITCHEN GARDEN WALLS TO SALTRAM HOUSE, ROMILLY GARDENS

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

District:
City of Plymouth (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SX5251256079

Details

PLYMOUTH

SX5356
740-1/34/446
01/05/75

ROMILLY GARDENS, Plympton
Former kitchen garden walls to
Saltram House
(Formerly Listed as:
COT HILL, Plympton
Head Gardeners Cottage. Walls at
Saltram Gardens)

GV
II

Kitchen garden walls of country house (qv), now part of a
residential development. Late C18. Red brick walls laid to
Flemish bond; brick copings with sloping sides and flat top.
Walls surrounding 3 rectangular gardens of about 1 acre each.
Walls have buttresses at regular intervals and are ramped up
on either side of a central drive from piers with pineapple
finials. The partitions are cavity walls with heat-ducts. The
stoke holes are inside the greenhouse built against the N
wall, mostly rebuilt, containing 2 of the original lead tanks
dated 1771 (former list description).
Head Gardener's Cottage has been altered and is no longer
included in the listing.

Listing NGR: SX5251256079

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
473743
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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