Description

NUNEATON AND BEDWORTH ARBURY PARK
SP38NW
4/9 Screen wall, and attached
garden feature and wall
adjoining gatehouse W of
Arbury Hall
GV II

Screen wall, attached garden feature and wall. Screen wall is possibly C17 with
late C18/early C19 alterations. Brick with some stone dressings. Rusticated
alternating quoins to lower part. Stone-coped embattled parapet. Moulded cornice
forms string course to raised end sections with more elaborate cornice and
larger battlements. Interior not inspected. Garden feature is composed of 2
re-erected Elizabethan bay windows, probably from Arbury Hall, with an arched
seat between. Sandstone. Large 5-light avolo-aoulded mullioned and transomed
windows, now blocked, with 2 tiers of Tuscan pilasters to angles, moulded
cornice and ornamented frieze. Dentil cornice and entablature, decorated frieze.
and strongly moulded cornice. Seat has lower moulded Tudor arch with moulded
spandrels, cornice and entablature, and wooden bench seat. Set back on right is
a lower section of wall adjoining gatehouse. C17/C18. Front of brick, with
return section of sandstone ashlar. Front has blocked segmental-arched doorway,
with another inserted below and to left. 3 small shaped openings above. Top has
vents. Jacobean openwork stone balustrade on top, re-used from elsewhere in the
garden.
(Buildings of England: Warwickshire, p71)

Listing NGR: SP3347189242

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26480621

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)