Well House Stone Pier and Rustic Seat in the Dairy Dell
WELL HOUSE STONE PIER AND RUSTIC SEAT IN THE DAIRY DELL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105547
- Date first listed:
- 21-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Well House Stone Pier and Rustic Seat in the Dairy Dell
- Statutory Address:
- WELL HOUSE STONE PIER AND RUSTIC SEAT IN THE DAIRY DELL
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105547
- Date first listed:
- 21-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Well House Stone Pier and Rustic Seat in the Dairy Dell
- Statutory Address 1:
- WELL HOUSE STONE PIER AND RUSTIC SEAT IN THE DAIRY DELL
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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:
- WELL HOUSE STONE PIER AND RUSTIC SEAT IN THE DAIRY DELL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Milton Abbot
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 38970 78601
Details
SX 37 NE MILTON ABBOT ENDSLEIGH
9/222 Well-house stone pier and rustic - seat in the Dairy Dell 21.3.67
GV II Well-house pier and rustic seat forming a single Picturesque composition of 1810. The well house is medieval, as is part of the masonry of the seat. The well-house was moved from Leigh Barton (qv) to Endsleigh in circa 1810 by the 6th Duke of Bedford to form part of the landscaped gardens designed by Humphry Repton. The internal masonry is local ashlar and probably medieval, the rustic stone rubble exterior is probably 1810. The well-house and a gabled stone pier of similar size flank a rustic seat which is a timber bench in front of a medieval stone slab with blind trefoil-headed arcading. The well-house has a gabled stone slate roof. Small rectangular structure with a rectangular opening with 1 moulded stone applied as a jamb which may not be original to the well-house. The interior has a moulded stone corbel with a decoration of blind pointed arcading. A cobbled drain leads from the well into the pond in the Dairy Dell. A picturesquely irregular inscription panel in the gable reads "This simple structure inclosed the holy well which served as a baptismal font to the Abbots of Tavistock at their hunting seat at Leigh in this parish". The stone pier has rustic stone rubble masonry and a gabled stone slate roof. Numerous pieces of moulded and carved medieval masonry are scattered about the well-house and no doubt originated at Leigh Barton.
Listing NGR: SX3897078601
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 92464
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 11 Devon,
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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