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Park Place — PARKPLACE

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Park Place — PARKPLACE
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Former walled garden on square-plan, built c. 1780. Originally associated with Park Place House, now demolished, and located to the east of the site of the house. Rubble limestone and roughly dressed and squared limestone boundary walls to site having cut stone capstones over. Walls now largely overgrown. Square-headed integral pedestrian entrances having dressed limestone block-and-start surrounds with keystones and battened timber doors. Two detached single-storey outbuildings to the west, adjacent to site of house, comprising a five-bay outbuilding to the north and a single-bay outbuilding to the south. Pitched natural slate roofs; cut stone eaves course and brick chimneystack to outbuilding to the south. Roughcast rendered rubble stone construction to outbuilding to the south having dressed limestone quoins to the corners, and with square-headed window openings having red brick block-and-start surround with multi-paned metal pivoting windows and tooled limestone sills. Rubble stone and red brick walls to outbuilding to the north having square-headed openings with red brick surrounds and square-headed openings with modern corrugated-metal fittings. Main entrance gates to the north comprising a pair of dressed limestone gate piers (on square-plan) having chamfered plinths, moulded capstones and a pair of wrought-iron gates. Set back from road in own grounds to the northwest of Barry. Rubble limestone boundary walls to site.

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