Retaining Wall To South Terrace And Eastern Part Of Garden Terminating At The Four Faces Avenue is a Grade I listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 July 1986. A C.1727-1728 Wall.
Retaining Wall To South Terrace And Eastern Part Of Garden Terminating At The Four Faces Avenue
- WRENN ID
- waning-shingle-meadow
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 July 1986
- Type
- Wall
- Period
- C.1727-1728
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
BARWICK IN ELMET AND SCHOLES BRAMHAM PARK SE44SW LS23 SE406411-SE404416 Retaining wall to 8/19 South Terrace and eastern part of garden terminating at the Four Faces Avenue GV II
Retaining wall to the South Terrace and the eastern part of the garden to Bramham Park. c1727-28 possibly to designs by John Wood the Elder for Robert Benson. Roughly-dressed sandstone. Long stone wall 10 courses high with buttressed piers at regular intervals and a semicircular projection to the centre of the terrace just beyond the end of the T-shaped canal (q.v.). Attached to west end wall turns north on an irregular line supporting the garden walks.
Part of an important early C18 landscaped garden after Le Notre clearly illustrated (aerial photograph) in G. Lane Fox, Bramham Park (guide-book 1985), cover. Mentioned in English Heritage, Register of Parks and Gardens, Grade I
Listing NGR: SE4061341155
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