Summer House at Woodlands Cottage
SUMMER HOUSE AT WOODLANDS COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1031521
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Summer House at Woodlands Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- SUMMER HOUSE AT WOODLANDS COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1031521
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Summer House at Woodlands Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- SUMMER HOUSE AT WOODLANDS COTTAGE
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- SUMMER HOUSE AT WOODLANDS COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ledbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SO7151937513
Details
LEDBURY
SO 7137
1089/2/10001
Summer House at Woodlands Cottage
II
Summerhouse. Dated 1901. Built for Hon. Lady Elizabeth Biddulph, of Ledbury Park. Timber-framed with brick and roughcast panels. Clay tile bellcast hipped roof with very deeply overhanging eaves with exposed rafter ends and lead-clad ridge with tall finials. Queen Anne freestyle. PLAN: Rectangular on plan; single room with lateral stack and outshuts at back; built into the hillside at the rear. Wide doorway at front onto raised terrace. EXTERIOR: One storey. Symmetrical 3-bay front with wide central doorway with moulded elliptical arch flanked by 3-light windows with small panes, two similar windows on side elevations; on either side of doorway, at corners and between the side windows there are baluster-shaped timber pilasters and above the doorway a carved wooden coat of arms with date 1901 over; below the windows brick herring-bone panels and above the windows roughcast panels. INTERIOR: Timber-framing with roughcast panels above the windows, and ribbed and boarded ceiling. Large inglenook in rear wall with moulded arch, panelled reveals and flanking cupboards with panelled doors and plate-rails above. Above the fireplace is a carved wooden plaque inscribed:- 'To the memory of Queen Victoria 1837-1901 by the Hon. Lady Elizabeth Biddulph of her late Majesty's Household. AD 1901'. Lady Elizabeth was the daughter of Sir Thomas Myddleton Biddulph, former Master of Queen Victoria's Household and Keeper of the Privy Purse. The summerhouse was formerly in the grounds of Ledbury Park, the family seat of the Biddulphs since about 1600.
Listing NGR: SO7151937513
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 468957
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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