Description

STANFORD ON SOAR STANFORD HALL DRIVE
SK 52 SE
(south side)
8/81 Sea Lion Pool,
Penguin Pool and
urns in the gardens
of Stanford Hall
G.V. II
Sea lion pool, now auditorium, penguin pool now rose bed and
urns. Late C18 and late 1930s. Messrs. Allom for Sir Julian
Cahn. Dressed coursed rubble, rock-face ashlar and ashlar. Sea
lion pool with diameter of approximately 120 metres, broken by 2
gateways, one with double iron gate and 2 small piers with ashlar
orb finials. Interior has an irregular rock platform. The south
side has a small culvert linking the 2 pools with small
balustraded footbridge over. The rubble walls of the penguin
pool have a diameter of about 60 metres. Flanking this pool are
single decorative C18 urns, remodelled in the 1930s.

Listing NGR: SK5602823817

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26535001

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Recommended Books

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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record