Description

SO 96 NW DODFORD WITH GRAFTON CP GRAFTON LANE (north side)

11/87 Garden wall about 20 yards
south-west of Grafton Manor
and adjoining chapel

GV II

Garden wall. Late C16 with mid-C19 repairs. Handmade brick and sandstone
rubble with sandstone coping. Wall runs west for about 40 yards and varies
between four and seven feet high. About 10 yards along the north side is a
chamfered 4-centred archway with sandstone jambs. The wall survives from the
C16 terraced garden layout created by John Talbot and encloses the garden on
the west side of Grafton Manor and adjoining chapel (qv) to the south.
(The Birmingham Post booklet: Grafton manor: a short history, 1980).

Listing NGR: SO9384669116

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26460661

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)