Listed Building: GARDEN TERRACE, RAILINGS AND 2 GATEWAYS, SOUTH OF GATEHOUSE (1062343)

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Grade II
Authority Department of the Environment
Date assigned 09 January 1987
Date last amended

Description

EASTON EASTON PARK SK 92 NW Garden terrace, 6/84 railings and 2 gateways, south of Gatehouse II G.V. Garden terrace, railings, 2 gateways and gates. c.1840. Ashlar and cast iron. Single tall terrace reached by flight of steps with plain sides. The terrace wall has shallow projecting buttresses and a moulded top. To the right a gateway has squared piers with panelled and jewelled sides supported on scrolls, and the tops of the piers terminate in broken segmental pediment. Above the central gateway is reached up 5 steps. It is flanked by square piers with corniced, orbed tops. The gates are ramped to the centre and have crested overthrow with shells and the Cholmeley cypher. The flanking walls have cast iron lattice screens with roundels to the top rail, decorative side panels, linked by square piers with cornice tops. Built as part of the formal gardens to Easton Hall, seat of the Cholmeley family. The house, which was demolished in 1951, stood to the west of the terrace. Country Life, 25/1/1902. Listing NGR: SK9282826603

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Grid reference SK 92828 26603 (point)
Map sheet SK92NW
Civil Parish EASTON, SOUTH KESTEVEN, LINCOLNSHIRE

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Apr 17 2009 4:44PM

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