Description

SP5750
19/36
18/01/68

CANONS ASHBY
Canons Ashby House, walls running from Lion Gates to S to SE corner of house
(Formerly listed as Walls to court and garden and gatepiers at Canons Ashby)

GV
II

Garden walls, gates and gatepiers. Early C18. Coursed squared ironstone,
ironstone ashlar, some limestone dressings. Stone coped wall running from Lion
Gates (g.v.) at bottom of orchard N, enclosing E side of garden to gates and
gatepiers to park. Gatepiers have moulded plinths, cornices, plain sides and
support suits of armour on square moulded bases with splayed feet. Wrought iron
gates and overthrow. The wall then runs N to meet the SE angle of Canons Ashby
House with a doorway at that end with 4-centred chamfered arch head and jambs.
External buttresses to E, one dated 1873.
(Canons Ashby gardens and park are included in the HBMC Register of Gardens at
Grade II*)

Listing NGR: SP5769150591

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26338358

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)