Listed Building: BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATES TO NUMBER 1 GARDEN COTTAGE (284204)

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Grade II
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Volume/Map/Item 284204
Date assigned 14 July 1955
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TL 87 SE AMPTON THE STREET 2/8 Boundary Walls and Gates to 14.7.55 No.1. Garden Cottage. (Formerly listed with Home GV II Farmhouse as boundary wall and entrance gateway) Garden Wall, gateway and gate. C18. Part kidney flints, part black knapped flints, freestone and white brick. Heavily rusticated stone archway with semi- circular head, Roman Doric pilasters and pediment, and frieze inscribed 'ET VOLUPTATI PLURIMUM ET SALUTI'. This led to the kitchen gardens of the Hall. (cf. 'Excursions through the County of Suffolk, 1819. p.90). Wrought iron ornamental gate with semi-circular head similar to and opposite, an old door in the garden wall of Ampton Hall. To each side of the archway, a short stretch of high wall in kidney flints flanked by 2 rusticated white brick piers surmounted by large stone ball finials. On the north side, a further short stretch of wall in black knapped random flint, terminating in a 3rd matching brick pier and finial. Listing NGR: TL8658571266

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Grid reference TL 86585 71266 (point)
Map sheet TL87SE

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Feb 11 2020 10:52AM

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