Description

TQ 04 NW ST MARTHA CP BLACKSMITHS LANE

4/90 Garden Walls to
14.6.67 North of Chilworth Manor

GV II

Garden walls. Early C18 enclosing site of C17 flower garden with terraces
set into hillside. Sandstone rubble with flint galleting, coped and
dressed with red brick. Built on a sloping site the walls increase in
height towards the south, circa 10' high to north, 15' to south side.
Buttressed every 15' on west side with corner pier/turret to south west
angle under stone corbelled capital and brick stringcourses. Connected
to main house by short wall with arched entrance. In the centre of the
north and west sides are rusticated brick entrance piers with brick
dentils to moulded tops. Space between on north side filled with plinth
wall carrying railings above. Terrace across north end of garden. The
walls and garden terraces are attributed to Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough.

Listing NGR: TQ0265547895

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26280758

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Recommended Books

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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)