PIERS, GATES, RAILINGS AND PLINTHS TO HEDGEMEAD PARK

PIERS, GATES, RAILINGS AND PLINTHS TO HEDGEMEAD PARK, BELVEDERE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1394680
Date first listed:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: PIERS, GATES, RAILINGS AND PLINTHS TO HEDGEMEAD PARK
Statutory Address:: PIERS, GATES, RAILINGS AND PLINTHS TO HEDGEMEAD PARK, BELVEDERE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1394680
Date first listed:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: PIERS, GATES, RAILINGS AND PLINTHS TO HEDGEMEAD PARK
Statutory Address 1:: PIERS, GATES, RAILINGS AND PLINTHS TO HEDGEMEAD PARK, BELVEDERE

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:: PIERS, GATES, RAILINGS AND PLINTHS TO HEDGEMEAD PARK, BELVEDERE

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

District:: Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: ST 74953 65469

Details

BELVEDERE (East side) Piers, gates, railings and plinths to Hedgemead Park

GV II

Piers, gates, railings and plinths at the western entrance to Hedgemead Park between Valley View House and Hartley House (qv). c1900. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar and wrought iron. EXTERIOR: Attached to the flanking houses, and serving as a gatepier to Valley View House are piers with dentil cornices and lintel friezes below bold ogee pyramidal caps with flat square pinnacles. Bull-nosed plinths support railings with turned finials. Open square railed gatepiers have scrolled tops and urn finials; double gates have scrolls to horizontal upper and central bands and scrolled central vertical panels. HISTORY: Hedgemead Park opened c1900 following landslips. SOURCES: R. Gilding, Historic Public Parks Bath (Avon Gardens Trust 1997), 35-39.

Listing NGR: ST7495365469

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 510083
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.