Farnborough Hall the Oval Pavilion

FARNBOROUGH HALL THE OVAL PAVILION

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1024463
Date first listed:
07-Jan-1952
List Entry Name:
Farnborough Hall the Oval Pavilion
Statutory Address:
FARNBOROUGH HALL THE OVAL PAVILION
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1024463
Date first listed:
07-Jan-1952
Date of most recent amendment:
21-Apr-1986
List Entry Name:
Farnborough Hall the Oval Pavilion
Statutory Address 1:
FARNBOROUGH HALL THE OVAL PAVILION

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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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The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

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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Location

Statutory Address:
FARNBOROUGH HALL THE OVAL PAVILION

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

County:
Warwickshire
District:
Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
Parish:
Farnborough
National Grid Reference:
SP4299848830

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 15/05/2020


FARNBOROUGH
SP44NW
Farnborough Hall: The Oval
9/13
07/01/52
Pavilion (Formerly listed as Farnborough Hall and Garden House)

GV II*

Garden pavilion. c.1750. Probably designed by Sanderson Miller and built by William Hiorns for William Holbech. Plaster work probably by William Perritt. Ironstone ashlar, with limestone ashlar dressings. Lead domed roof. Oval plan. Classical. Two storeys. Loggia of four Tuscan columns on pedestals, two in antis, with entablature and trilymph frieze. First floor has Ionic pilasters with string course between pedestals. Entablatures break forward over columns and pilasters. Curved eight pane sashes to front and sides have thick glazing bars and moulded stone surrounds. To rear: external curving stone staircase with iron handrail. Part-glazed six-panelled door in moulded architrave. Interior: loggia is plastered, with egg and dart cornice. Moulded oval stone table. Wooden seat. First floor 'Prospect Room' has fine Rococo plaster work between the windows and in the dome. Vitruvian scroll dado rail. Elaborately moulded cornice. Dome of central oval and four large and four small panels. Ornamental wooden floor. Forms an important feature of the Terrace Walk, probably by Miller, a major example of mid C18 landscape design.

Listing NGR: SP4305848933

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
305588
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Jackson Stops, G, Farnborough Hall National Trust Guidebook, (1984)
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 293
Country Life in 11 February, (1954)
Country Life in 18 February, (1954)

Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 42 Warwickshire,

Legal

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

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