ROOT STORE, AQUALATE HALL

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A root store, dating from the mid-C19. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1393492
Date first listed:: 15-Oct-2009
List Entry Name:: ROOT STORE, AQUALATE HALL
Statutory Address:: ROOT STORE, AQUALATE HALL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1393492
Date first listed:: 15-Oct-2009
List Entry Name:: ROOT STORE, AQUALATE HALL
Statutory Address 1:: ROOT STORE, AQUALATE HALL

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:: ROOT STORE, AQUALATE HALL

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

County:: Staffordshire
District:: Stafford (District Authority)
Parish:: Forton
National Grid Reference:: SJ7749819687

Reasons for Designation

The root store at Aqualate Hall is designated at Grade II, for the following principal reasons: * As an unusually good, and well-detailed, example of a once-commonplace type of horticultural building which forms an adjunct to the walled garden at Aqualate Hall; * As part of an unusually full and architecturally interesting set of estate buildings to one side of Aqualate Hall, which is listed at Grade II*.

Details

603/0/10058 15-OCT-09

FORTON Root Store, Aqualate Hall

GV II

A root store, dating from the mid-C19.

MATERIALS: Red brick with a red clay tile roof.

DESCRIPTION: The root store stands against the outside west wall of the kitchen gardens, readily accessible to the Hall's kitchen. It comprises an open upper part with a tiled roof with sawn, king-post trusses, supported on one side on the kitchen garden wall, and on the other on five brick piers. These have rounded corners, stone cushion capitals and at their bases are separated from one another by round-topped stone sills. This upper part may have been used to store hay or straw, which would have provided added insulation. Beneath, and reached by a sunken passageway, is a series of four arched brick vaults, each a metre or so high, providing cool, dark storage space for root vegetables.

HISTORY: The building's construction is not documented; on architectural grounds, a mid-C19 date is likely. It appears in its current form on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1879. It was still in its original use in 2008. The root store forms part of an unusually full set of historic estate buildings surrounding Aqualate Hall.

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: The root store at Aqualate Hall is designated at Grade II, for the following principal reasons: * As an unusually good, and well-detailed, example of a once-commonplace type of horticultural building which forms an adjunct to the walled garden at Aqualate * As part of a particularly full and architecturally interesting set of estate buildings to one side of Aqualate Hall, which is listed at Grade II*.

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 506775
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.