BELVEDERE AT JUNCTION OF WALKS AT EAST END OF PARK

BELVEDERE AT JUNCTION OF WALKS AT EAST END OF PARK, AVENHAM PARK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1279842
Date first listed:: 26-Sep-1979
List Entry Name:: BELVEDERE AT JUNCTION OF WALKS AT EAST END OF PARK
Statutory Address:: BELVEDERE AT JUNCTION OF WALKS AT EAST END OF PARK, AVENHAM PARK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1279842
Date first listed:: 26-Sep-1979
Date of most recent amendment:: 20-Dec-1991
List Entry Name:: BELVEDERE AT JUNCTION OF WALKS AT EAST END OF PARK
Statutory Address 1:: BELVEDERE AT JUNCTION OF WALKS AT EAST END OF PARK, AVENHAM PARK

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: BELVEDERE AT JUNCTION OF WALKS AT EAST END OF PARK, AVENHAM PARK

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Lancashire
District:: Preston (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SD 54138 28758

Details

PRESTON

SD5428NW AVENHAM PARK 941-1/14/6 (East side) 27/09/79 Belvedere at junction of walks at east end of park (Formerly Listed as: AVENHAM PARK Shelter at east side of Park)

GV II

Gazebo. Built 1865-6. Rendered brick with sandstone as ashlar facade (painted white), flat roof. Shallow rectangular plan. Classical style. Single storey, built back-to-earth, 3:1:3 bays, symmetrical, with open arcaded front and ends. The centre, forming a slightly projected and taller porch (approached by flight of 9 stone steps), has a large round-headed arch with set-in Corinthian shafts, moulded impost bands, and moulded extrados with keystone flanked by roundels with shields of arms, and a modillioned cornice. The 3-bay side ranges have similar but smaller arches on slender Corinthian columns and responds with square caps, moulded cornices with blocking courses; and matching one-bay returned ends. Interior has blind arcading in rear wall of each side range. Originally on site now occupied by Derby Monument (q.v.), dismantled and re-erected on this site c.1873.

Listing NGR: SD5413828758

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 25 Lancashire,

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.