Description

LONDESBOROUGH LONDESBOROUGH PARK
SE 84 NE
16/25 Terrace wall, steps, and
associated urns (Previously listed
as terrace wall, steps and former
26.1.67 deer shelters on site of Londesborough
Park)
- II

Terrace wall, steps, and associated urns. C18. Red brick with stone dressings,
stone steps. Terrace wall terminates to east in series of 12 giant round
arches with impost band and three smaller arches without imposts.
Continuous moulded coping ramped down to east to square abutment with deep
moulded cornice: ball finial missing. C19 extension wall to east terminates
in square brick abutment with stone cornice and ball finial. Thirteen
shallow rectangular steps to top of terrace flanked to right and left by two
oval urns on bases. Larger, similar bases lie behind, to right and to left.
Statues missing. The cellars to Londesborough Hall (not inspected) survive
beneath the terrace. This terrace wall defines the southern boundary to the
gardens of the former Londesborough Hall. Londesborough Park is included in
the HBMC County Register of Gardens at Grade II*.

Listing NGR: SE8697345363

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26367708

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Recommended Books

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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)