Garden Walls To North Of World Bird Research Station is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 August 1987. Garden walls.
Garden Walls To North Of World Bird Research Station
- WRENN ID
- grey-glass-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 August 1987
- Type
- Garden walls
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
GLANTON FRONT STREET NU 0714 (North side) Glanton Village 21/202 Garden walls to north of World Bird Research Station GV II
Garden walls, c.1796 incorporating earlier C18 wall on west. Squared stone. 3-metre high flat-coped wall on east is linked by lower wall at south end to stable/coach-house (q.v.) at rear of World Bird Research Station; similar wall on north. 2-metre high west wall has gabled coping, and runs past west end of Primrose Cottage (q.v.).
The walls originally enclosed a formal garden behind The Mansion (now the World Bird Research Station); since 1930 the area has been planted with a variety of both indigenous and exotic trees, and used as a bird sanctuary and study area.
Listing NGR: NU0705014552
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