Listed Building: UPPER TERRACE WALL. GARDEN BEFORE SOUTH FRONT OF TATTON HALL (1139532)

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Grade II
Authority Department for Culture Media and Sport
Volume/Map/Item 133, 3, 94
Date assigned 20 September 1984
Date last amended

Description

SJ 7481 TATTON C.P. TATTON PARK 3/94 Upper Terrace wall. Garden before South Front of Tatton Hall. GV II Terrace wall. c1860. By Sir Joseph Paxton. Sandstone and marble wall with central staircase and abutting sloping walls with staircases, urns to top of wall. Rusticated wall with moulded capping stones. Central staircase of 6 + 6 steps with middle landing at which level there are 2 low piers to either side supporting large marble urns with gadroomed lower bodies. Vine trail around upper bodies and egg and dart carving to lip. Similar urns to extreme left and right of wall with 4 smaller vases merely carved with gadrooning along length of wall. Similar pairs of urns at top of each set of abutting steps. Listing NGR: SJ7456881549

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Sources (1)

  • Digital Archive: English Heritage. 2005. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. 58469. [Mapped features: #2982 58469; #8288 58469]

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Location

Grid reference Centred SJ 7456 8154 (53m by 20m) (2 map features)
Map sheet SJ78SW
Civil Parish TATTON, MACCLESFIELD, CHESHIRE EAST

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Record last edited

Feb 20 2012 4:38PM