SUMMERHOUSE AND SLUICES AT WEST END OF ISLAND, 240 METRES SOUTH-EAST OF ABBEY

SUMMERHOUSE AND SLUICES AT WEST END OF ISLAND, 240 METRES SOUTH-EAST OF STONELEIGH ABBEY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1096007
Date first listed:: 26-Nov-2002
List Entry Name:: SUMMERHOUSE AND SLUICES AT WEST END OF ISLAND, 240 METRES SOUTH-EAST OF ABBEY
Statutory Address:: SUMMERHOUSE AND SLUICES AT WEST END OF ISLAND, 240 METRES SOUTH-EAST OF STONELEIGH ABBEY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1096007
Date first listed:: 26-Nov-2002
List Entry Name:: SUMMERHOUSE AND SLUICES AT WEST END OF ISLAND, 240 METRES SOUTH-EAST OF ABBEY
Statutory Address 1:: SUMMERHOUSE AND SLUICES AT WEST END OF ISLAND, 240 METRES SOUTH-EAST OF STONELEIGH ABBEY

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:: SUMMERHOUSE AND SLUICES AT WEST END OF ISLAND, 240 METRES SOUTH-EAST OF STONELEIGH ABBEY

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

County:: Warwickshire
District:: Warwick (District Authority)
Parish:: Stoneleigh
National Grid Reference:: SP 32059 71055

Details

SP 32067106, 1827/0/10017

STONELEIGH, Summerhouse and sluices at west end of island, 240m south-east of Abbey

II Sluices and summerhouse. Built c1813 for Thomas or James Henry Leigh, and based on a design by Humphry Repton. Repaired late C20 and early C21. Ashlar and timber. The building comprises ashlar walling carrying a walkway. Slightly convex on the upstream side, with central round-arched opening through which water flows freely. To the left, a plain opening with the remains of double sluices in wood with iron fittings. Above the central opening, a wooden summerhouse in Classical style, with fluted pilasters, pedimented gable and on 3 sides, arch-braced openings giving the impression of round arches. Fronting and flanking the summerhouse, a wooden diamond-lattice railing. INTERIOR: The summerhouse contains a wooden bench, and is floored with pebbles set in diamond patterns.

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Legacy System number:: 489897
Legacy System:: LBS

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