Description

SU 52 SW OWSLEBURY LONGWOOD ESTATE

8/7 Wall to Orchard attached
to cottages l00m SW of
Longwood Estate Office

GV II

Wall with archway. Circa 1880 by G Devey. Brick with stone dressings and tiled coping.
60m wall continuing from end of cottage, 4m high, then ramping down to 3m, and at far
end ramping down to meet 1.5m plain wall giving view over park. 15m from cottage
archway of piers with set-back buttresses either side of arch made of thin bricks.
Over, modillioned cornice supporting row of nesting boxes with tiled roofs. Each side
of archway dressed stone segmental headed opening with Doric pillar in centre and
responds either side, and beyond these, square openings of dressed stone with 4-
centred heads. Wall itself has toothed cornice to wide coping of 3 courses of tiles
with ridge tile.

Listing NGR: SU5193823775

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26589778

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Recommended Books

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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)