Summer House
SUMMER HOUSE, THE GROVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1088093
- Date first listed:
- 09-Aug-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Summer House
- Statutory Address:
- SUMMER HOUSE, THE GROVE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1088093
- Date first listed:
- 09-Aug-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Summer House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SUMMER HOUSE, THE GROVE
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, THE GROVE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Hounslow (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 15144 76577
Details
787/0/10119 THE GROVE
09-AUG-02 (Off)
Summer House
II
Summer House at Spring Grove House
Summer House. C.1894. Attributed to W.B. Catherwood. Painted brick with wooden facing, wooden verandah, encaustic tiles to floor, tiled roof, raised on a platform of brick and stone. A rectangular, single storey bungalow.
EXTERIOR: Wooden verandah running on all four sides, supporting a shallow pitched roof with deep eaves. These are carried on twisted wooden columns with three pairs of consoles at the junction with the eaves, with scalloped valance to outer face. Undersides of eaves are panelled. Gables to centre of north, east and west sides, decorated with cartouches within strapwork surrounds. Railings to each side, with a mixture of X-shaped and square section supports. Openings at corners and centre of each side. Inner building has splayed angles, six-panel door to centre of south side. Projecting four-light windows to east and west sides. North side decorated with arcade, decorated with grotesque masks in heads of arches; this motif repeated either side of the door. Moulded cornice and string course at cill level.
INTERIOR: Large architectural chinmney-piece in French Renaissance style, with segmental termination; mosaic surround to fireplace, with marble slips and shouldered frame. Foliate brackets either side of pyramidal chimney-breast. Banquette with fielded panels to backrest; in-situ cupboards flank chimney-breast.
HISTORY: built for the soap magnate Andrew Pears as part of his embellishment of Spring Grove House; Catherwood designed the lodge, which shares some stylistic similarities with this structure. A well-preserved and richly decorated example of the genre.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 489669
- 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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