Battlemented Look-Out Tower To The West End Of Hedgemead Park is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 2010. Look-out tower.
Battlemented Look-Out Tower To The West End Of Hedgemead Park
- WRENN ID
- buried-timber-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 2010
- Type
- Look-out tower
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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HEDGEMEAD PARK
Battlemented look-out tower to the west end of Hedgemead Park
GV II
Look-out tower. 1889. By TB Silcock. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar to parapet, rough ashlar to tower with railings to top. PLAN: Three-quarter cylindrical plan. EXTERIOR: Tower extends to east side of revetment wall that runs from north to south of park and forms substantial buttress to wall. Base approx 4m in diameter and approx 4m. high. Thick battlemented parapet has platband below and blind cross-loopholes below each merlon. Inside parapet are simple straight railings. HISTORY: A romantically conceived piece of neo-baronial earth-propping. Hedgemead Park was laid out on the site of a notorious land-slide which brought many houses down; this necessitated the construction of a substantial revetment wall, to which this picturesque feature was a notable embellishment. Park was laid out in 1889. SOURCES: [R. Gilding, `Historic Public Parks. Avon' (1997), 35-39].
Listing NGR: ST7500965495
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