The Shell Seat
THE SHELL SEAT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140655
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1968
- List Entry Name:
- The Shell Seat
- Statutory Address:
- THE SHELL SEAT
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/10058/21
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140655
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1968
- List Entry Name:
- The Shell Seat
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE SHELL 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:
- THE SHELL 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:
- SX4541852595
Details
SX 45 SE MAKER-WITH-RAME MOUNT EDGCUMBE COUNTRY PARK
7/193 The Shell Seat
23.1.68
GV II
Summer house. Late C18. Rubble structure entirely faced with crystals, rocks and
shells, including mica, rough amethyst, ammonites, calcite and quartz crystals,
brain corals, conch and ormer shells etc. Semicircular plan, half of a
hemispherical vault, with open front, with slate roof. Front has round arch with
large block of brain coral forming imitation keystone, front face of vault set with
variety of stones and shells at random. The internal vault is divided into 7
radiating bays by strips of ormer shells, forming white stripes, the spaces between
faced with red crystals, graded in colouring from deep red at the centre rear to
lighter pink at the front; the stonework of the bays is laced with chips of crystal.
The overall effect is of a trompe l'oeil perspective. Along the rear wall is a
crystalline-faced bench. The floor is cobbled in a pattern radiating from a circle
at the centre front.
Listing NGR: SX4541852595
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 61850
- 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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