Thatched Summerhouse Circa 40 Metres West of Great Rissington Manor
THATCHED SUMMERHOUSE CIRCA 40 METRES WEST OF GREAT RISSINGTON MANOR
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1090332
- Date first listed:
- 28-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Thatched Summerhouse Circa 40 Metres West of Great Rissington Manor
- Statutory Address:
- THATCHED SUMMERHOUSE CIRCA 40 METRES WEST OF GREAT RISSINGTON MANOR
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1090332
- Date first listed:
- 28-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Thatched Summerhouse Circa 40 Metres West of Great Rissington Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- THATCHED SUMMERHOUSE CIRCA 40 METRES WEST OF GREAT RISSINGTON MANOR
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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.
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:
- THATCHED SUMMERHOUSE CIRCA 40 METRES WEST OF GREAT RISSINGTON MANOR
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Cotswold (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Rissington
- National Grid Reference:
- SP1943317106
Details
GREAT RISSINGTON GREAT RISSINGTON MANOR
SP 1917-2017
9/147 Thatched summerhouse c40m west of
Great Rissington Manor
GV II
Summer house at the south-west corner of the upper terrace west of
Great Rissington Manor house. Built c1929 for Major W.J.P.
Marling, probably designed by Falconer, Baker and Campbell.
Coursed squared and dressed limestone with dressed stone quoins,
upper part of the upper floor timber-framed. Thatched roof.
Square plan to the ground floor. Timber-framed upper part circular
with moulded stone corbels where the circular part projects south
over the square lower part. Four stone steps up to an early C20
plank door with strap hinges flanked by single timber-framed panes
with curved decorative bracing. The side walls of the remainder of
the circular upper part otherwise comprise metal casements with
large leaded panes. Plank door set back within a pointed dressed
stone reveal at ground floor level on the west side, opening onto
the lower terrace. Conical thatched roof with a weathervane
decorated with a single leaping fish at the apex. Interior not
inspected. One of a group of garden buildings/features of the same
period.
(P. Cane, Modern Gardens, British and Foreign, 1926, p70-72; and
J. Sales, West Country Gardens, 1980, p65)
Listing NGR: SP1943317106
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 130880
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cane, P, Modern Gardens British and Foreign, (1926), 70-72
Sales, J, West Country Gardens, (1980), 65
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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