BALUSTRADE AND GARDEN WALL RUNNING APPROXIMATELY 100 METRES NORTH EAST OF THE GARDEN FRONT OF SWINFEN HALL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1188324
Date first listed:: 15-Jan-1988
List Entry Name:: BALUSTRADE AND GARDEN WALL RUNNING APPROXIMATELY 100 METRES NORTH EAST OF THE GARDEN FRONT OF SWINFEN HALL
Statutory Address:: BALUSTRADE AND GARDEN WALL RUNNING APPROXIMATELY 100 METRES NORTH EAST OF THE GARDEN FRONT OF SWINFEN HALL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1188324
Date first listed:: 15-Jan-1988
List Entry Name:: BALUSTRADE AND GARDEN WALL RUNNING APPROXIMATELY 100 METRES NORTH EAST OF THE GARDEN FRONT OF SWINFEN HALL
Statutory Address 1:: BALUSTRADE AND GARDEN WALL RUNNING APPROXIMATELY 100 METRES NORTH EAST OF THE GARDEN FRONT OF SWINFEN HALL

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: BALUSTRADE AND GARDEN WALL RUNNING APPROXIMATELY 100 METRES NORTH EAST OF THE GARDEN FRONT OF SWINFEN HALL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Staffordshire
District:: Lichfield (District Authority)
Parish:: Swinfen and Packington
National Grid Reference:: SK 13475 06032

Details

SK 10 NW SWINFEN AND PACKINGTON C.P. 6/100 Balustrade and garden wall running approx. l00m N.E. of the garden front of Swinfen Hall

GV II

Garden walls and balustrade. Late C19. Stone coped brick retaining wall (invisible from the south) approx. lm high and 150m long which is finished both ends by Portland stone balustraded parapet of quarter round plan flanked by solid stone dies. The retaining wall runs the complete length of the garden front of Swinfen Hall (q.v.) including the C19 addition, and in fact extends beyond to the north, suggesting that a further wing of equal size was intended. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SK1347506032

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Legacy System number:: 272716
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.