Piers, Gates, Railings and Plinths to Hedgemead Park
PIERS, GATES, RAILINGS AND PLINTHS TO HEDGEMEAD PARK, BELVEDERE
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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.
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:
- 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
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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