Description

SP5750
19/32
18/01/68

CANONS ASHBY
Canons Ashby House, garden walls running from NW corner of house to Green Court gates
(Formerly listed as Walls to court and garden and gatepiers at Canons Ashby)

GV
II

Garden wall and piers. Early C18. Coursed squared ironstone, ironstone ashlar,
some limestone dressings. High stone wall running alongside road to Preston
Capes and forming the N boundary to Green Court. Stone coped, with consoles
where wall meets the NW angle of Canons Ashby House and at the other end of the
Green Court where it turns to meet pier at this corner of Court. Pier has
moulded plinth and cornice, plain sides and obelisk supported by 4 stone
scrolls. To the park a low stone coped wall with timber posts at intervals with
pierced finials supporting 2 wrought iron rails. Stone coping and scroll feet of
obelisk largely renewed c.1981. Part of an important set of walls,gates and
piers enclosing the early C18 formal gardens of Canons Ashby House (g.v.).
(Canons Ashby gardens and park are included in the HBMC Register of Gardens at
Grade II*).

Listing NGR: SP5768050703

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26338355

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (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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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version