Summerhouse at Lorton Park

SUMMERHOUSE AT LORTON PARK

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1145131
Date first listed:
29-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:
Summerhouse at Lorton Park
Statutory Address:
SUMMERHOUSE AT LORTON PARK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1145131
Date first listed:
29-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:
Summerhouse at Lorton Park
Statutory Address 1:
SUMMERHOUSE AT LORTON PARK

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
SUMMERHOUSE AT LORTON PARK

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

District:
Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Lorton
National Park:
Lake District
National Grid Reference:
NY1597425797

Details

LORTON HIGH LORTON
NY 12 NE
10/SP 879 Summerhouse at
Lorton Park
II
Summerhouse. c1830. Yellow stock brick, red brick eaves band, lead roof copper
finial. Single cell octagonal plan. Single storey with a window to each face.
Each corner has a projecting buttress. Pointed head windows clear glazed above a
4 x 3 small paned light. Much old slightly tinted glass, the door has two panels
below an interlace band. Architrave surround. Projecting timber eaves, ogee
roof, ball finial. INTERIOR: Brick floor, fixed benches and central table. Roof
of shaped rafters and close boarding. The windows look new but have old glass,
the roof was apparently removed in the early 1970s.


Listing NGR: NY1597425797

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
72752
Legacy System:
LBS

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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