WALLS AND SUMMERHOUSE OF WOOD HOUSE NORTH GARDEN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1170691
Date first listed:: 04-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: WALLS AND SUMMERHOUSE OF WOOD HOUSE NORTH GARDEN
Statutory Address:: WALLS AND SUMMERHOUSE OF WOOD HOUSE NORTH GARDEN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1170691
Date first listed:: 04-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: WALLS AND SUMMERHOUSE OF WOOD HOUSE NORTH GARDEN
Statutory Address 1:: WALLS AND SUMMERHOUSE OF WOOD HOUSE NORTH GARDEN

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:: WALLS AND SUMMERHOUSE OF WOOD HOUSE NORTH GARDEN

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

County:: Devon
District:: West Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: South Tawton
National Grid Reference:: SX6546196060

Details

SX 69 NE SOUTH TAWTON

1/181 Walls and summerhouse of Wood House north garden

GV II*

Walls and summerhouse. 1899-1905 by Thomas Mawson. Granite rubble walls arranged to look like crazy paving; granite ashlar detail and quoins; slate coping to walls and thatch roof to the summerhouse. The lawn of the north garden are enclosed on 3 sides by high walls and is open on the south-east (towards the house), the right side the back of a stable courtyard. The back wall curves back behind a small summerhouse. It is circular in plan supported on monolithic granite front posts. These are circular in a kind of classical style. There is a stone seat around the back and it has a conical thatch roof. Either side are round-headed niches with moulded eared architraves and there are 3 more on the left side. None now have statues. Also a doorway through the back wall contains an original door. This is part of an extensive landscaping scheme conceived by Mawson to go with the rebuilding of Wood House (q.v.). It wa-s overlooked from the billiard room in the house. Mawson himself considered the whole one of his major achievements. Source: T H Mawson The Art and Craft of Garden Making, (5th edition) includes copious notes and illustrations of Wood House.

Listing NGR: SX6546196060

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 94978
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Mawson, T H, The Art and Craft of Garden Making, (1907)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 11 Devon,

Legal

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