Retaining Wall On East Side Of Pond Situated About 50 Yards North-West Of Hanbury Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Wychavon local planning authority area, England. Retaining wall.

Retaining Wall On East Side Of Pond Situated About 50 Yards North-West Of Hanbury Hall

WRENN ID
keen-postern-ridge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wychavon
Country
England
Type
Retaining wall
Source
Historic England listing

Description

HANBURY CP SCHOOL ROAD (north side) SO 96 SW 3/133 Retaining wall on east side of pond situated about 50 yards north-west of Hanbury Hall GV II Retaining wall. Early C18, rebuilt mid-C19. Brick in English garden wall bond with sandstone coping. Roughly a quadrant about 20 yards long with a west end return and terminating at north end in square pier with pyramidal capping. The wall was originally linked to one of a pair of pavilions forming a boundary between the formal garden layout by George London and the pond and deer park beyond (the original layout is clearly illustrated in a perspective drawing of 1732 by Joseph Dougharty). (Hanbury Hall, The National Trust Official Guidebook, 1981, p 27-30; VCH 3 (ii), p 372-3; Country Life xxxix, p 502; CXLiii 18, 16, gardens x 368).

Listing NGR: SO9434763761

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