Description

RABY WITH KEVERSTONE RABY PARK
NZ 1221 and NZ 1222
15/93 and 16/93 Garden walls and
gateway with fig-
house attached

GV II

Garden walls and gateway. Mid C18, with 1894 dated gateway transferred 1937
from Shipbourne. Walls and gateway brick,with ashlar dressings and coping;
right return rubble. Brick, ashlar and glass fig-house. Serpentine front wall
c.230 metres long,with central gateway and fig-house to left of gate; returns
and 2 inner walls extend c.60 metres to rear, except for right return which
abuts former hunting stables (q.v.), rear wall to central and right garden.
Walls c.3 metres high, with flat stone coping, interrupted by central Jacobean-
style gateway with ball-finialled shaped gable; coat of arms, initials EVB and
date 1894 in gable. Fig-house to left of gateway has stone-coped walls
supporting C19 greenhouse roof. Round-headed stone arches at right end of
front wall, and in inner walls near front; segmental-headed stone arches near
front of returns.

Listing NGR: NZ1287122018

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26414928

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