BATTLEMENTED LOOK-OUT TOWER TO THE WEST END OF HEDGEMEAD PARK

BATTLEMENTED LOOK-OUT TOWER TO THE WEST END OF HEDGEMEAD PARK, HEDGEMEAD PARK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395992
Date first listed:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: BATTLEMENTED LOOK-OUT TOWER TO THE WEST END OF HEDGEMEAD PARK
Statutory Address:: BATTLEMENTED LOOK-OUT TOWER TO THE WEST END OF HEDGEMEAD PARK, HEDGEMEAD PARK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395992
Date first listed:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: BATTLEMENTED LOOK-OUT TOWER TO THE WEST END OF HEDGEMEAD PARK
Statutory Address 1:: BATTLEMENTED LOOK-OUT TOWER TO THE WEST END OF HEDGEMEAD PARK, HEDGEMEAD PARK

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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Location

Statutory Address:: BATTLEMENTED LOOK-OUT TOWER TO THE WEST END OF HEDGEMEAD PARK, HEDGEMEAD PARK

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:: ST7500965495

Details

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HEDGEMEAD PARK

Battlemented look-out tower to the west end of Hedgemead Park GV II

Look-out tower. 1889. By TB Silcock. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar to parapet, rough ashlar to tower with railings to top. PLAN: Three-quarter cylindrical plan. EXTERIOR: Tower extends to east side of revetment wall that runs from north to south of park and forms substantial buttress to wall. Base approx 4m in diameter and approx 4m. high. Thick battlemented parapet has platband below and blind cross-loopholes below each merlon. Inside parapet are simple straight railings. HISTORY: A romantically conceived piece of neo-baronial earth-propping. Hedgemead Park was laid out on the site of a notorious land-slide which brought many houses down; this necessitated the construction of a substantial revetment wall, to which this picturesque feature was a notable embellishment. Park was laid out in 1889. SOURCES: [R. Gilding, `Historic Public Parks. Avon' (1997), 35-39].

Listing NGR: ST7500965495

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Legacy System number:: 511402
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.