Terrace Walls And Steps To The Garden South Of St Michaels is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 January 1977. Terrace walls and steps.
Terrace Walls And Steps To The Garden South Of St Michaels
- WRENN ID
- brooding-fireplace-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 January 1977
- Type
- Terrace walls and steps
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TQ 53 37 SPELDHURST BURRSWOOD, OLD GROOMBRIDGE
16/470 Terrace walls and steps to the 18.1.77 garden south of St Michaels(formerly listed as Terrace Wall to Burrswood) GV II
Terrace walls and steps. Probably early C20, dating from a period when the garden was designed by the brother of the owner, a newspaper magnate called Johnstone (Lee). Rusticated stone.
The coped wall immediately south of the house has a series of deep low buttresses on the south side. Steps lead down to the second terrace, the steps with flanking ramped walls surmounted by ball finials. The walls of the second terrace are surmounted by urns.
Included for group value with St Michaels (q.v.).
source, Lee, Barbara. Groombridge Old and New (1978), p.25.
Listing NGR: TQ5207937712
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