Eythrope Pavilion

Eythrope Pavilion, Eythrope Park, Eythrope, Aylesbury, HP18 0HS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1117798
Date first listed:: 29-Jan-1985
List Entry Name:: Eythrope Pavilion
Statutory Address:: Eythrope Pavilion, Eythrope Park, Eythrope, Aylesbury, HP18 0HS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1117798
Date first listed:: 29-Jan-1985
List Entry Name:: Eythrope Pavilion
Statutory Address 1:: Eythrope Pavilion, Eythrope Park, Eythrope, Aylesbury, HP18 0HS

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:: Eythrope Pavilion, Eythrope Park, Eythrope, Aylesbury, HP18 0HS

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

District:: Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Waddesdon
National Grid Reference:: SP 76953 13748

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 15/07/2020

SP 71 SE 7/111

WADDESDON EYTHROPE Eythrope Park Eythrope Pavilion

(Formerly listed as Eythrope Pavilion, EYTHROPE)

II House. 1876-1879, much extended to north 1950s and altered c1990. Original building by George Devey for Alice de Rothschild.

HISTORY Alice de Rothschild (1847-1922) bought the Eythrope estate in 1875, a year after her brother acquired the adjacent Waddesdon Manor, and built The Pavilion as a daytime retreat from her brother's house. Here Miss Alice (as she was known) developed 30ha of highly ornamental and innovative gardens, with a large kitchen garden, surrounded by the existing park. Other members of this international Jewish banking family had houses in the Vale of Aylesbury, which was sometimes known as ‘Rothschildshire’. Because the proximity of the river was considered a health hazard, especially at night, the original building was designed as a day pavilion with living rooms, kitchen and housekeeper's rooms but no other bedrooms, Alice de Rothschild always spending the night at Waddesdon Manor

DETAILS Red and vitreous brick, ashlar dressings steeply pitched tiled roofs. Style combines French and English Renaissance features. Plinth, moulded cornice on Tuscan pilasters with ornamental capitals and carved lugs, panelled brick parapet with stone pilasters and ball finials. Tudor chimneys with variously patterned circular and octagonal shafts. One storey and attic, three bays.

EXTERIOR Canted projection to left of east front has ornamental gable with carved stone pilaster strips and friezes, flanking scrolls and carved lion finial. Right bay has more curvilinear gable with scrolls, segmental pediment and ball finials. To ground floor of right bay is a semi-circular bay window with stone balustrade. Stone mullion and transom windows with central arched lights.Centre bay has three stone architrave arches with keyblocks, the central arch with door and flanking columns. To centre of south front is a two-storey semi-circular bay window breaking through the eaves, with a tall spire above. To left a large three-light Mullion and transom window inserted c1990, with small side arch to loggia beyond. West front has ornamental gable to left, two storey bay window to centre, semi circular chimney with two tall projecting brick stacks added c1990, arched loggia to right of attic and attic windows in French oeil-de-boeuf dormers.

INTERIOR Contains imported late-eighteenth century French 'boiserie' panels in the former Blue Dining Room and in the Dining Room. This latter room also contains imported late eighteenth century French panels. Simple Classic style interior decoration in the main reception rooms and French style marble fire places. Curved staircase with iron balustrade inserted c1950.

Listing NGR: SP7695313748

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Legacy System number:: 42257
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.