Wall Around Aston Gardens

Date:
25 Jun 2002
Location:
Wall Around Aston Gardens, Aston Lane, Aston, Vale Royal, Cheshire, WA7 3DB
Reference:
IOE01/07784/24
Type:
Photograph (Digital)
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Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

ASTON BY SUTTON C.P. ASTON LANE SJ 57 NE South West Side 3/45 Wall around Aston Gardens.

GV II Wall of walled gardens, probably late C18, of brown brick. English garden wall bond. Buttresses, triangular in plan, on inner and outer faces of wall. About 49 courses (4 metres) high with plain rectangular stone coping. 2 bricks thick (0.5 metres), the wall contains flues and was heated. It surrounds a garden forming a parallelogram circa 140 x 110 metres. A good example, intact except for furnaces. Central part of west facing wall to garden is thickened. Formed garden to Aston Hall.

Listing NGR: SJ5567878376

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/2116 IOE Records taken by Keith Walker; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr Keith Walker. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project

People & Organisations

Photographer: Walker, Keith

Rights Holder: Walker, Keith

Keywords

Brick, Stone, Georgian Fruit Growing Wall, Monument (By Form), Wall, Barrier, Gardens Parks And Urban Spaces, Garden Wall, Agriculture And Subsistence, Walled Garden, Garden