Shelter By Smeatons Tower, The Promenade

Description

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

PLYMOUTH

SX4753 THE HOE, Hoe 740-1/66/297 Shelter by Smeaton's Tower, The Promenade

GV II

Shelter in public park. Late C19. Cast-iron frame with wooden partitions and seats; hipped dry slate roof with deep projecting eaves. Rectangular plan with recessed seat on each side. The roof is carried on central column at either end and 4 pairs of slender turned and carved columns with arabesque brackets to decorated frieze. Slatted seats on ornate cast-iron supports. Boarded ceiling. One of a good group of garden buildings on the Hoe, extended and replanned in the 1880s. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 665).





Listing NGR: SX4777353789

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/0996 IOE Records taken by Derek Hiscock; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr Derek Hiscock. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project