Picklecombe Seat
PICKLECOMBE SEAT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140628
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Picklecombe Seat
- Statutory Address:
- PICKLECOMBE SEAT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140628
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Picklecombe Seat
- Statutory Address 1:
- PICKLECOMBE SEAT
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:
- PICKLECOMBE SEAT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Maker-with-Rame
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 45465 51826
Details
SX 45 SE MAKER-WITH-RAME MOUNT EDGCUMBE COUNTRY PARK
7/226 Picklecombe Seat
23.1.68 GV II
Garden feature in the form of an alcove temple. Late C18, incorporating earlier features. Slatestone and granite rubble with granite arch and limestone dressings. Rectangular plan with 5 granite steps leading to open front. Gothick style. Central tall elliptical arch flanked by aedicules, each with pair of engaged shafts; pediment over the shafts with trefoils along head and cusped tympanum. Rubble sides and rear. Interior Cobbled floor. Ridged granite vault with one wide convex-moulded rib to rear. Rear wall has imitation piscina/niche, with engaged shafts to right and left, trefoil head with crocketted gable moulding over, in limestone; quatrefoil sink inside niche, and rectangular recess to rear. Rev. Shaw, in Early Tours of Devon and Cornwall, 1788: "Winding beautifully round we came next to a gothic alcove built from the materials of an old chapel the inside of which gives a picturesque view of nothing but the sea...".
Listing NGR: SX4546551826
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 61882
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Shaw, Reverend, Early Tours of Devon and Cornwall, (1788)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 8 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly,
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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