The Alcove, Weston Park
The Alcove, Weston Park, Wood Lane
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1115833
- Date first listed:
- 03-Mar-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Alcove, Weston Park
- Statutory Address:
- The Alcove, Weston Park, Wood Lane
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- Date:
- 2002-06-08
- Reference:
- IOE01/06470/26
- Rights:
- © Dr W A Cooper. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1115833
- Date first listed:
- 03-Mar-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Feb-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Alcove, Weston Park
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Alcove, Weston Park, Wood Lane
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:
- The Alcove, Weston Park, Wood Lane
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Milton Keynes (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Weston Underwood
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 86121 51376
Details
SP 85 SE
1/268
WESTON UNDERWOOD
WOOD LANE
The Alcove, Weston Park
(formerly listed as Cowpers Alcove)
3.3.52
II
Garden building. Mid C18. Hexagonal on plan. Coursed rubblestone, rendered to interior. Open front with two Doric columns, entablature and hipped slate roof. Seats round the back walls. Built as a viewpoint on the path leading from the Rustic Bridge to The Wilderness via the Lime Avenue (now felled) in Weston Park. Frequented by the poet William Cowper when resident in Olney and subsequently in Cowper's House, Weston Underwood.
Listing NGR: SP8612151376
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 351176
- 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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