STONE PEDESTAL CIRCA 30 METRES SOUTH WEST OF LOWER MILL HOUSE

STONE PEDESTAL CIRCA 30 METRES SOUTH WEST OF LOWER MILL HOUSE, MILL STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1091905
Date first listed:: 25-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:: STONE PEDESTAL CIRCA 30 METRES SOUTH WEST OF LOWER MILL HOUSE
Statutory Address:: STONE PEDESTAL CIRCA 30 METRES SOUTH WEST OF LOWER MILL HOUSE, MILL STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1091905
Date first listed:: 25-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:: STONE PEDESTAL CIRCA 30 METRES SOUTH WEST OF LOWER MILL HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: STONE PEDESTAL CIRCA 30 METRES SOUTH WEST OF LOWER MILL HOUSE, MILL STREET

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: STONE PEDESTAL CIRCA 30 METRES SOUTH WEST OF LOWER MILL HOUSE, MILL STREET

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Cheltenham (District Authority)
Parish:: Prestbury
National Grid Reference:: SO 96862 24098

Details

SP 9624 PRESTBURY MILL STREET (south side)

17/76 Stone pedestal c30m south- west of Lower Mill House

II

Stone pedestal. Late C18. Limestone. Similar in form to a circular pedestal tomb. Height c2m. Two large fielded panels (with no legible inscription) on sides. One large console bracket with foliate and acanthus decoration on east side was once matched by a similar bracket on the west side. Moulded capping with frieze incorporating a frieze with swag decoration, tapering stone column above with a large square mortice hole suggesting the column was once greater in height or had a large finial. This column represents the last remains of the features once in the grounds of a tea drinking house known to have been in existence on this site by 1784. The garden features include grottoes, a pavilion and a Chinese temple. George III is known to have visited the tea rooms and in the early C19 it was said to be one of the main attractions of the village. The house and tea rooms were demolished c1900. (V.C.H., Vol VIII, p71)

Listing NGR: SO9686224098

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Legacy System number:: 134484
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, (1969), 71

Legal

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