Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
21189
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
17/12/1998
Date of Amendment
17/12/1998
Name of Property
Terraced steps in Buckland Hall Garden
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Talybont-on-Usk
Town
Locality
Buckland
Easting
313067
Northing
221294
Street Side
Location
The terraced garden runs to SW of Buckland House, these steps being towards the end nearest the house.
Description
Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
Period
History
Dated by the Gardens Register as c 1910. They lead to a set of walks in the lower woodland above the house. Buckland Hall was rebuilt in 1898 and owned by the Gwynne Holford family from the mid C19 until 1935.
Exterior
An Italianate flight of stone steps, the lower section a series of 7 wide shallow steps with low bordering parapet walls which have wide shallow saddleback coping. The flight bifurcates and 7 steps ascend on either side of a curved central wall with a semicircular trough at base, ending in low piers with shallow capstones; 7 steps return and a flight of 11 steps ascends to a gateway with piers of tooled stone blocks, at the entrance to the terraced woodland walks. The stone is laid in narrow courses; stone flags to the landings.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a particularly decorative early C20 garden feature and for group value with other listed items within the grounds at Buckland.
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