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
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Official list entry

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

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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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

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Legacy System number:: 351176
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.