Listed Building: GARDEN WALLS, GATEWAY AND TERRACE BALUSTRADE IMMEDIATELY TO NORTH OF CRANBORNE MANOR HOUSE (107341)

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Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1173/11/4
Date assigned 18 March 1955
Date last amended

Description

CRANBORNE SU 0513 11/4 Garden walls, gateway and terrace balustrade 18.3.55 immediately to north of Cranborne Manor House GV II Walls, gateway and terrace balustrade. Walls probably early C17, gateway C18 and terrace balustrade of 1610, remade 1647. Walls of flint and rubble with weathered stone coping. Gatepiers of rusticated ashlar with moulded caps and ball finials. Terrace balustrade of stone with symmetrical turned stone balusters; approached up a short flight of steps. The original gateway and terrace were reputedly broken by Parliamentary troops in 1643. (RCHM, Dorset, vol. V, p.10, no.4.) Listing NGR: SU0530713283

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Location

Grid reference SU 0530 1328 (point)
Civil Parish Cranborne; Dorset
District (historic) East Dorset
Unitary Authority Dorset

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Nov 1 2006 5:13PM