Parterre, Retaining Wall And Steps Approximately 30 Metres East Of Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1987. Landscape architecture.
Parterre, Retaining Wall And Steps Approximately 30 Metres East Of Manor House
- WRENN ID
- rough-nave-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 March 1987
- Type
- Landscape architecture
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
ASHBY ST.LEDGERS MAIN STREET SP5768 (East side) 17/23 Parterre, retaining wall and steps approx. 30m. E of Manor House
GV II
Parterre. c.1909-12 by Sir Edwin Lutyens. Retaining walls uncoursed limestone and ironstone rubble with ironstone coping. Steps, paving and balustrade, limestone ashlar. Wall with balustrade and flight of semi-circular steps at each end descending from the lawn east of the Manor House to a paved parterre, with flower beds set in geometrical patterns. Similar steps at north and south approaches to the parterre. At the head of a sunken canal garden also designed by Lutyens (q.v.). (C. Hussey: Ashby St. Ledgers; Country Life, p.498 (illustrated).
Listing NGR: SP5738068302
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