Gazebo, Westbury Court Gardens
GAZEBO, WESTBURY COURT GARDENS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1068613
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Gazebo, Westbury Court Gardens
- Statutory Address:
- GAZEBO, WESTBURY COURT GARDENS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1068613
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Gazebo, Westbury Court Gardens
- Statutory Address 1:
- GAZEBO, WESTBURY COURT GARDENS
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:
- GAZEBO, WESTBURY COURT GARDENS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Forest of Dean (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Westbury-on-Severn
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 71892 13926
Details
SO 71 SW WESTBURY-ON-SEVERN WESTBURY VILLAGE
11/280 Gazebo, Westbury Court Gardens
GV II*
Garden house: probably between 1715 and 1725, for Maynard Colchester II; red brick, Flemish bond; ashlar stone, slate roof. Square, single storey, with one window per facade. Entrance front from main garden, brick plinth with stone capping: rusticated square corner piers. Tall doorway, set above 4 stone steps with swept wrought-iron handrails. Rusticated stone jambs to doorway, with outside Corinthian pilasters, bottom third of fluting infilled with reeds. Moulded capitals to jamb set below capitals to pilasters: semi-circular head to opening with projecting keystone. Impost blocks to pilasters. Moulded cornice all round building, breaking forward for corner piers, and pilasters and keystone to doorway. Door glazed above 2 fielded panels, renewed to old pattern in 1970's. Plain brick parapet above cornice, simply moulded stone coping swept up slightly to corner stone piers, capped with ball finials. Hipped roof. Moulded stone surround to windows, with semi-circular heads and dropped keystones: fixed sashes. Garden wall (q.v.), abuts gazebo at 2 corners by road. Built as part of Dutch water garden for Westbury Court, house since demolished. (G. Jackson-Stops, Westbury Court Gardens, 1975, revised 1984, for National Trust.)
Listing NGR: SO7189213926
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 354358
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Jackson Stops, G, Westbury Court Garden, (1975)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 16 Gloucestershire,
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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