Lady Damer's Seat
LADY DAMER'S SEAT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140629
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Lady Damer's Seat
- Statutory Address:
- LADY DAMER'S SEAT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140629
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Lady Damer's Seat
- Statutory Address 1:
- LADY DAMER'S 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:
- LADY DAMER'S 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:
- SX4573551708
Details
SX 45 SE MAKER-WITH-RAME MOUNT EDGCUMBE COUNTRY PARK
7/230 Lady Damer's Seat
GV II
Ornamental seat. Circa 1777. Sandstone on brick foundation. The seat is an ellipse
on plan about 5 metres long, faced in sandstone. There is a millstone set in front
of the seat for use as a table.
Mrs Ann Damer, a relation of Horace Walpole, visited Mount Edgcumbe in 1777, and
sometime after that date a small grove was dedicated to her in the Lower Zigzags,
embellished with an acrostic poem written by the son of the first earl, Lord
Valletort (1765-1839).
"David ne'er touched the harp like thee,
Anson ne'er saw thy like at sea;
Mansfield's no eloquence like thine,
Edgcumbe who thinks thee all divine;
Records thy name by every line."
The Lower Zigzags were the first of the system of formal paths terraced into the
hillside and cliffs along the coast, approximately south/south east of Mount Edgcumbe
House (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SX4573551708
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 61886
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
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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