Upper Terrace and Water Parterre in Garden at Moor Close Binfield, England
Listed Building Data
Upper Terrace and Water Parterre in Garden at Moor Close has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1390309
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 14 February 2002
- Name
- UPPER TERRACE AND WATER PARTERRE IN GARDEN AT MOOR CLOSE INCLUDING STEPS AND WALLS
- Location
- UPPER TERRACE AND WATER PARTERRE IN GARDEN AT MOOR CLOSE INCLUDING STEPS AND WALLS, TERRACE ROAD SOUTH
- Parish
- Binfield
- District
- Bracknell Forest
- Grid Reference
- SU 84613 70161
- Easting
- 484612.7365
- Northing
- 170160.7283
Listed Building Description
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BINFIELD
SU87SW TERRACE ROAD SOUTH 674-1/11/101 (East side (off)) Upper terrace & water parterre in garden at Moor Close inc. steps & walls
GV II
Part of larger garden at Moor Close (qv). Stone terrace with steps and walls and water parterre. 1911 by Oliver Hill. This terrace adjoins house on south-west, south-east and north-east sides. It is on several levels linked by stone steps and red brick retaining walls. Water parterre is on lowest level and formed with several different shaped pools each surrounded by York stone slabs. Flight of 5 stone steps on right and flight of 7 stone steps on left, both rectangular, lead to upper level. 3 semicircular flights of 6:4:5 stone steps lead out of terrace on south-west side. Upper level of terrace which formerly contained sunken garden has stone base for statue in centre, statue missing. Opposite this on either side is a fight of 4 and 7 stone steps on the left leading out of terrace, and 2 shallow steps on the right leading to the paved area immediately adjoining the house. A further flight of 4 steps in the north-west corner leads to the pergola and court (qv). (Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest: Part 3: Berkshire).
