The Generals Room
THE GENERALS ROOM
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1146275
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Generals Room
- Statutory Address:
- THE GENERALS ROOM
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- Date:
- 2004-06-14
- Reference:
- IOE01/11359/23
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1146275
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Generals Room
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GENERALS ROOM
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 GENERALS ROOM
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Tollard Royal
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 94224 16931
Details
ST 91 NW TOLLARD ROYAL LARMER GROUNDS (west side)
8/193 The General's Room
GV II
Ornamental Indian pavilion. Rebuilt on present site c1880. Timber-framed with lathe and plaster panels, asphalt hipped roof. Single-storey, raised above ground level, 3 finely carved window surrounds, smaller casements flanking larger with elaborately carved wooden canopies. Deep eaves to roof on heavily carved brackets. Rear has planked door up steps, returns are windowless. Interior not accessible at time of survey (April 1985), but walls lined with carved wooden panels. Known as the General's Room, one of a group of Indian buildings acquired by General Pitt-Rivers and erected in his pleasure grounds to illustrate an unfamiliar culture to the public who were encouraged to visit the Larmer Grounds during the last two decades of the C19. One of only two such buildings to have survived intact. (N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, Wiltshire, 1975; Unpublished notes of Mr. M. Pitt-Rivers).
Listing NGR: ST9422416931
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 320419
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1975)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 46 Wiltshire,
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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